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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Apr. 15, 2008

Californians Need Greater Protection From Medical Negligence

Forum Column - By Michael A. Kelly - The Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act is not only outdated, but it allows little accountability for wrongdoing in the medical arena, Michael A. Kelly writes.

FORUM COLUMN

By Michael A. Kelly
This article appears on Page 6

      If 33 years of treating patients as second-class citizens isn't ridiculous enough, the special protection afforded to medical malpractice insurance companies has now been extended to the insurers of ambulances. What is next? Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act protection for medical office custodians who fail to put out "Wet Floor" cone...

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