malpractice
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Patients, their families and lawyers have complained that Kaiser’s private and confidential system of handling medical malpractice complaints is designed to favor the health plan over those bringing the claims.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
Thurman has an ongoing lawsuit against Ascension Seton Williamson and the other hospital, Ascension Seton Highland Lakes, for medical malpractice.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
This is often referred to as the “case within a case” requirement for these kinds of malpractice suits.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
The more potent indictment centers on strategic malpractice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
He told Deborah he needed to read her mother’s medical records to investigate how the doctors had treated her, and to document any possible malpractice.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
In October 2025, Seoul apologised for the first time for state-sanctioned malpractices, saying "unjust human rights violations" were committed.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
There was one rural hospital, the site of various malpractices.
From Salon ● May 3, 2022
An independent investigation later found that both sides had participated in electoral malpractices and said it was impossible to determine who had really won.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2022
“We found exactly the same malpractices in exactly the same districts in 2018 as we did the year before,” Klimek says.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 30, 2018
In 1835 he entered Lord Melbourne’s cabinet as secretary at war, and effected some valuable administrative reforms, especially by suppressing malpractices detrimental to the troops in India.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
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Legal Lingo, List 5
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