Friday, March 24, 2006

Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alternatives

Some states have what's become known as "I'm Sorry Laws" which allow a physician or other medical practitioner to apologize to a patient for mistakes made during treatment. The apology generally is not admissible in a lawsuit if one follows. For a list of states that have enacted this type of law, see the March 23, 2006 posting at the Law Librarian Blog: http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2006/03/im_sorry_legisl.html

For a survey of what patients are willing to forgive in terms of medical errors, see the The Sorry Works! Coalition website at http://www.sorryworks.net/media7.phtml.

Source: Law Librarian Blog

2 Comments:

Blogger Jorge Miller said...

I am so thankful that I found and read this article.

8:13 PM  
Blogger aldrin james said...

This is so great. I am so happy that there are these kinds of alternative that we can choose if there is wrong in medical malpractices.

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8:15 PM  

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