Tech Lawsuits, Insurance Costs EscalateAs Does Cost Of Doing Nothing

Medical malpractice is huge. Total national costs can run from $17 billion to $29 billion a year, according to one 1999 estimate from the Washington-based Institute of Medicine.

Technology malpracticeyes, there is such a thingis big, too. Although no one has tabulated the total costs, individual cases are running into the hundreds of millions of dollarsastronomically higher than any single case of medical malpractice.

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