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Class-action lawsuits medicine's newest legal headache

Susan Lightstone

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The legal news for Canada's physicians has been bleak for years: 1 in 25 physicians was named in a new legal action in 2000 and the number of malpractice cases proceeding to trial doubled between 1995 and 1999. Now, the country's first medical malpractice class-action lawsuits give them something

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The legal news for Canada's physicians has been bleak for years: 1 in 25 physicians was named in a new legal action in 2000 and the number of malpractice cases proceeding to trial doubled between 1995 and 1999. Now, the country's first medical malpractice class-action lawsuits give them something

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The legal news for Canada's physicians has been bleak for years: 1 in 25 physicians was named in a new legal action in 2000 and the number of malpractice cases proceeding to trial doubled between 1995 and 1999. Now, the country's first medical malpractice class-action lawsuits give them something

Key concepts: Malpractice, Class action, Legal action, Action (physics), Class (philosophy), Alternative medicine, Medicine, Medical malpractice

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