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'Health court' proposals would burden taxpayers, limit rights.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-SEP-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Proponents of creating special "health courts" to handle all medical malpractice disputes have asked Congress and state legislatures nationwide to force malpractice victims to waive their Seventh Amendment right to trial by jury. Instead, these cases would be resolved by a new administrative bureaucracy modeled after the workers' compensation system.

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