Section Newsletter Articles on Medical Malpractice
The relation back doctrine trumps the medical malpractice statute of repose
By Hon. Alfred M. Swanson, Jr. (Ret.)
Bench and Bar,
April 2016
The question facing the First District was whether the medical malpractice statute of repose prohibited the relation back doctrine from allowing the plaintiff to add a wrongful death claim under the Wrongful Death Act to an existing lawsuit.
The medical malpractice insurance crisis: What can be done?
By Patrick J. Kelley
Health Care Law,
March 2005
Here in Illinois we are faced with an urgent practical problem: doctors are leaving our state, and sometimes leaving the practice altogether, because of recent huge increases in their medical malpractice insurance premiums.
General Accounting Office medical malpractice insurance studies
Health Care Law,
September 2003
Over the past several years, large increases in medical malpractice insurance rates have raised concerns that physicians will no longer be able to afford malpractice insurance and will be forced to curtail or discontinue providing certain services.
Case summaries
By Hon. Morton Denlow, Hon. Michael Kiley, Alfred M. Swanson, and Philip Lading
Bench and Bar,
November 2002
Cases of interest to Bench & Bar practitioners.
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