Medicine and law
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In the Netherlands the total number of liability claims per year is about 2500, 100 of which are taken to court. Over the years these figures appear to be rather constant. ⋯ Is it the improvement of the patients' possibility to recover? Is the main goal to put a stop to the progress of increasing costs of liability claims? Is saving doctors from the threat of being sued the main issue? Or is there a problem of the insurance companies that has to be solved? No-fault compensation is not a panacea. In the end improving the liability system may turn out to be a better solution.