Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 18.
Published in final edited form as: N Engl J Med. 2011 Aug 18;365(7):629–636. doi: 10.1056/NEJMsa1012370

Figure 2. Trends in Overall Claims and Claims with an Indemnity Payment, According to Risk of Specialty.

Figure 2

Panel A shows the proportions of physicians with an annual claim, and Panel B shows the proportion with an indemnity payment (compensation paid to a plaintiff), according to the risk associated with the specialty. High-risk and low-risk specialties were defined as the five specialties with the highest average annual proportion of physicians with a malpractice claim and the five specialties with the lowest average annual proportion, respectively.