Meanings of malpractice claims in English

Context: Poor patient-physician communication increases the risk of patient complaints and malpractice claims.

Earlier studies looked at malpractice claims that may or may not have had merit.

Only 16 percent of patients with medical malpractice claims won arbitrations in the Kaiser system.

Researchers looked for other traits, beyond specialty, that might predict which doctors are more likely to have malpractice claims.

The MDU has withdrawn cover from 30 consultants here, mainly obstetricians, leaving them potentially open to multimillion euro malpractice claims.

Those sections about responsibility and arbitration involve more than an automatic signature or initial, according to some attorneys who bring malpractice claims.

The review follows the report by senior counsel Seán Guerin into Garda malpractice claims by Sgt Maurice McCabe, which was critical of the department.

Overall, they had data on nearly 25,000 doctors who oversaw about 18.3 million hospital admissions and faced over 4,300 malpractice claims.

The Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) is locked in a two-year battle with the British-based Medical Defence Union over cover for medical malpractice claims.

University of Limerick (UL) is to lift the suspension of two whistleblowers whose allegations helped spark an independent investigation into malpractice claims at the college.

Existing California law makes available, via phone, only information about doctors whom courts have ordered to pay US$30,000 or more in malpractice claims.