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Professor Alberto Bernabe - The University of Illinois-Chicago School of Law

Monday, March 15, 2010

Health care, medical malpractice and tort reform

There are a lot of new comments on the "blawgsphere" today on healthcare, med-mal and tort reform. Here are the headlines (and links): Defensive Medicine Doesn’t Lead To Unnecessary Medical Treatment The One Group That Was Not Made Whole: Injured patients (in Maryland) More evidence that there isn’t a medical malpractice crisis Emergency Room Immunity Picks Up Support Will The Georgia Supreme Court Overturn Medical Malpractice Damage Caps?
Posted by Professor Alberto Bernabe at 8:01 PM
Labels: Medical malpractice, Tort reform

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