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States Mull ‘Med-Mal’ Courts; Special dockets said to produce efficiency, but critics knock absence of juries; Sympathetic Jurors Lindsay Fortado
Massachusetts Law Tribune, February 10, 2005
The article describes the growing trend of states turning
toward health courts as an alternative to the current tort system for medical
injury disputes. In addition to the recent vote in Massachusetts
to create a commission to study the feasibility of special health courts, other
states including Illinois, Maryland
and Pennsylvania
are also exploring the health courts model. Common Good Executive
Director Franklin Stone reports that Common Good is discussing the idea with 10
states, including New York and Virginia. Article no longer available online.
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