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Alternative Dispute Resolution

May 17, 2001

Panel Would Allow Patient Suits

SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers, forever pecking at the shell of pre-dispute binding arbitration clauses, broke through Tuesday by winning committee approval of a bill that would allow patients harmed by their health care plan to sue for damages in court.

By Linda Rapattoni
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers, forever pecking at the shell of pre-dispute binding arbitration clauses, broke through Tuesday by winning committee approval of a bill that would allow patients harmed by their health care plan to sue for damages in court.
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