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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MED-ARB: The Best Of Both Worlds?

                  [Image: Top view of the two-headed Boa Island Janus figure, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, by Kenneth Allen, May 22, 2006]           Last night I attended a joint meeting…

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Supreme Court’s Decision In Hall Street Offers Something For Everyone

 [Image:  A supreme pizza with pepperoni, peppers, olives and mushrooms, by Scott Bauer, USDA]           Last week, the U. S. Supreme Court decided the much anticipated arbitration case, Hall Street…

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Super Lawyers, Like Superstars, Can Come And Go

                    [Image: World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) superstar Rikishi performs for the troops at Camp Victory, Baghdad, Iraq, December 20, 2003, by TSGT Lias M. Zunzanyika, USAF]           Until very…

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The Time To Mediate That’s Just Right? Not Too Early, Not Too Late.

                                        [Image: The Three Bears, Project Gutenberg etext 19993]           Thank you to Geoff Sharp, a commercial mediator and barrister from New Zealand…

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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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