it's surprising how hard it is to find up to date studies on malpractice. A big part of this is data access. The National Practitioner Data Bank is public but only records paid claims and has no clinical detail which makes it pretty unhelpful. Below is a chart of malpractice claims for $1M+ and $2M+ per year Malpractice carriers seem to only give researchers access to their internal claims when the industry is going through some kind of crisis. The 2006 Studdert paper that everyone quotes had 5 malpractice carriers give rawdogged claims access to the researchers, which doesn't really seem to happen ever. Our current malpractice system creates an added issue that there really isn't a central repository to analyze claims, it's scattered across the carriers. Other countries collate it all into one place so you can actually use it for safety research + look deeper into doctors/institutions that might have more issues.