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Analysis of several important happenings.
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Third Parties at Court-Ordered Psychological Evaluations
What can litigants, their attorneys, and their medical examiners expect from the courts when conflicts over third-party presence during a court-ordered psychiatric examination arise?
The Role of the Mediator in Med Mal Cases
Tips to make the mediation process smooth and profitable.
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A Roadmap to Economic Damages in Med Mal Matters
A good understanding of the basic elements of damages and the issues that might be involved is essential to effective representation. Here is an in-depth review.
The Role of the Mediator in Med-Mal Cases
For litigants today, faced with the potential of a long and drawn-out jury trial, along with the uncertainties that accompany such an exercise, mediation is becoming a very important alternative in the dispute resolution process.
Whistleblowing and Peer Review
Last month, we discussed the fact that one long-settled aspect of the California Supreme Court's peer-review jurisprudence is the exhaustion-of-remedies doctrine. We stated that two of California's intermediate appellate courts addressed doctors' whistleblower claims ' with diametrically opposed results.
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