HEALTHCARE NEUTRALTM BLOG

The Healthcare Neutral Blog will share ideas and developments in alternative dispute resolution, healthcare business and law.

Report From Seattle: Some Perspectives On ADR

                 [Image: View of downtown Seattle from Kerry Park, with Mt. Rainier in the background, by U.S. Geological Survey, October 16, 2005]          Two weeks ago, I attended the…

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ERISA Health Plans Continue To Prove There Is No Free Lunch For Malpractice Plaintiffs

                  [Image: “Men and women employees on the \’swing shift\’ of North American\’s Inglewood, Calif., aircraft plant enjoy their lunch periods,” October, 1942, from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library…

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Do You Know How Judges Decide Cases? Do You Have A Hunch?

                 [Image: The center third of “Education” (1890), a stained glass window by Charles Louis Tiffany and Tiffany Studios, located in Linsley-Chittenden Hall at Yale University.  It depicts Science…

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Cordero v. Christ Hospital Opens A Can Of Worms

     A decision by the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey last week will raise more questions than it answered in malpractice cases involving hospital based physicians. …

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Should Doctors Insist That Their Patients Arbitrate? Should Patients Agree?

                    [Image: The Turnstiles of Taipei in Xindien Station, by Shack,  June 28, 2007]           An article posted in Sunday\’s philly.com by Inquirer Staff Writer Stacey Burling described arbitration…

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Bringing Medicare To The Settlement Table Is Not So Easy

                                    [Image: Br\’er Rabbit at the table from Uncle Remus, His songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, by Joel…

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