A Texas Turnaround: Representative Changes in Malpractice Insurance Rates for Physicians in the Houston Area


Representative Changes in Malpractice Insurance Rates for
Physicians in the Houston Area


Rates for physicians

in Houston

2003
2007
2007 (with 20%

renewal dividend)

Internal medicine
$18,507
$13,272
$10,403
Obstetrician
$56,564
$41,575
$32,585
Neurosurgeon
$103,558
$76,117
$59,659