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Health Courts?, Philip G. Peters Jr.
Health Courts?, Philip G. Peters Jr.
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This article undertakes the first detailed critique of the proposal from Common Good and the Harvard School of Public Health to replace medical malpractice jury trials with adjudication before specialized health courts. Professor Peters concludes that the modest benefits likely to be produced by the current health court proposal are matched by the risks of bias and overreaching that these courts would also present. Missing from the plan is the doctrinal change mostly likely to improve patient safety - hospital enterprise liability. Without enterprise liability, the health court proposal is unlikely to achieve its patient safety goals and, as a …
When Doctrines Collide: Corporate Negligence And Respondeat Superior When Hospital Employees Fail To Speak Up, I. Trotter Hardy
When Doctrines Collide: Corporate Negligence And Respondeat Superior When Hospital Employees Fail To Speak Up, I. Trotter Hardy
Faculty Publications
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