Medical Malpractice - Res Ipsa Loquitur and Informed Consent in Anesthesia Cases
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Malpractice relief. Lower premiums, tort reform add to Alaska's appeal.
I is seemingly a universal truth that wherever one practices in the United States, malpractice insurance costs too much. But in Alaska, the average medical malpractice premiums are lower than at least 35 other states, a national survey shows. Physicians in Alaska pay much less than their colleagues in the nation’s five most costly states, according to the Medical Liability Monitor Survey, 2008....
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