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- Now that I'm a lawyer, I marvel that we never considered a medical malpractice suit against the doctor who operated unnecessarily on her back.† (source)
- He hooted that Lawton had been a failure as a lawyer, that he had never tried a felony case, never had appellate experience, never argued a case before the Georgia Supreme Court, and that as a direct result of his laziness and incompetence he had exposed a law firm he had worked for to a malpractice suit.† (source)
- After he lost the malpractice lawsuit--his first, and a big shock to him I now realize--he started pushing me to make decisons.† (source)
- He told Deborah he needed to read her mother's medical records to investigate how the doctors had treated her, and to document any possible malpractice.† (source)
- All minds except Father's, that is, who frequently takes the name of Brother Fowles in vain, feeling certain now that all the stones in his path were laid by this deluded purveyor of Christian malpractice.† (source)
- This sounded like a malpractice disclaimer.† (source)
- Australian law forbids lawyers to take malpractice cases on a contingency basis.† (source)
- He had one lawsuit after another, one malpractice case after another.† (source)
- Imagine you work for an insurance company that sells doctors medical malpractice protection.† (source)
- Paul, like most surgeons, was covered by malpractice insurance.† (source)
- A promising case of medical malpractice wilted under the scrutiny of expert review, and Jake had no choice but to settle for nuisance value.† (source)
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- Celia has judged 193 cases since she was elected to the People's Court, from petty thievery and family disputes to more serious crimes of medical malpractice, arson, and counterrevolutionary activities.† (source)
- "That's his malpractice premium talking.† (source)
- The out-of-court settlement for my malpractice complaint. and the other one.† (source)
- His malpractice was no matter of choice.† (source)
- It was a monument to farming malpractice, with great gullies cutting through it, and acres of good dark earth gone dead from misuse.† (source)
- The difference lies in the fact that in Australia relatively few malpractice cases arise.† (source)
- + The salary was so attractive because I didn't have to pay exorbitant malpractice insurance.† (source)
- Malpractice sounds like one of those infinitely complicated and multidimensional problems.† (source)
- He also said he believed Hopkins was guilty of medical malpractice, and that it was time to sue for the family's cut of all the money Henrietta's cells had earned since the fifties, a percentage of which he would take as his fee.† (source)
- Believe it or not, the risk of being sued for malpractice has very little to do with how many mistakes a doctor makes.† (source)
- It's possible to thin-slice a surgeon's risk of being sued for malpractice on the basis of a small snippet of conversation.† (source)
- What comes up again and again in malpractice cases is that patients say they were rushed or ignored or treated poorly.† (source)
- At the same time, the overwhelming number of people who suffer an injury due to the negligence of a doctor never file a malpractice suit at all.† (source)
- "People just don't sue doctors they like," is how Alice Burkin, a leading medical malpractice lawyer, puts it.† (source)
- Analyses of malpractice lawsuits show that there are highly skilled doctors who get sued a lot and doctors who make lots of mistakes and never get sued.† (source)
- At the same time, the threat of malpractice has made doctors less and less willing to take a chance on a patient, with the result that these days only about 10 percent of those admitted to a hospital on suspicion of having a heart attack actually have a heart attack.† (source)
- "I mean," I said, "that you're about to suffer a lawsuit for holding me incommunicado, and another one for malpractice, for your indiscriminate use of narcotics.† (source)
- His life was insured for a hundred million yen; he was insured against malpractice for three hundred million yen.† (source)
- # On November 3 Hopton Stoddard filed suit against Howard Roark for breach of contract and malpractice, asking damages; he asked a sum sufficient to have the Temple altered by another architect.† (source)
- Suppose he were sued by some vicious shrieking woman for malpractice.† (source)
- Indeed, he was collecting evidence of their malpractices; and those costermongers, not allowed to stand their barrows in the streets; and prostitutes, good Lord, the fault wasn't in them, nor in young men either, but in our detestable social system and so forth; all of which he considered, could be seen considering, grey, dogged, dapper, clean, as he walked across the Park to tell his wife that he loved her.† (source)
- Something about the way in which Clyde said this—his extreme nervousness as well as his willingness to indulge in a form of malpractice which the pharmacist by some logic all his own considered very different from just swallowing a preparation intended to achieve the same result—caused him to look suspiciously at Clyde, the thought stirring in his brain that very likely after all Clyde was not married, also that this was one of those youthful affairs which spelled license and future…† (source)
- The doctor realizing from this, as he thought, what the true problem was—that she was a newly-married girl who was probably faced by just such a problem as she was attempting to outline—yet not wishing to enter upon any form of malpractice and at the same time not wishing to appear too discouraging to a young couple just starting out in life, gazed at her somewhat more sympathetically, the decidedly unfortunate predicament of these young people, as well as her appropriate modesty in…† (source)
- My object, when the contest within myself between stipend and no stipend, baker and no baker, existence and non-existence, ceased, was to take advantage of my opportunities to discover and expose the major malpractices committed, to that gentleman's grievous wrong and injury, by — HEEP.† (source)
- Say that the evil-speaking of which I am to be made the victim accuses me of malpractices—" here Bulstrode's voice rose and took on a more biting accent, till it seemed a low cry—"who shall be my accuser?† (source)
- ' "It is not my intention," ' he continued reading on, ' "to enter on a detailed list, within the compass of the present epistle (though it is ready elsewhere), of the various malpractices of a minor nature, affecting the individual whom I have denominated Mr. W., to which I have been a tacitly consenting party.† (source)
- The suspicions against me had no hold there: they are grounded on the knowledge that I took money, that Bulstrode had strong motives for wishing the man to die, and that he gave me the money as a bribe to concur in some malpractices or other against the patient—that in any case I accepted a bribe to hold my tongue.† (source)
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