A New Legal Standard for Medical Malpractice

Reducing malpractice risk:8 strategies to protect your practice

Learn eight practical strategies medical practices can implement to reduce malpractice risk, improve patient safety, and strengthen legal protection.

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A New Legal Standard for Medical Malpractice

This Special Communication discusses the changes introduced in the first-ever restatement of the law of medical malpractice by the American Law Institute.

Negligence – Statute of repose – Medical malpractice

Where the defendants in a medical malpractice action were awarded summary judgment under the seven-year statute of repose (G.L.c. 260, §4), the judgment should be reversed because there are genuine issues of material fact in dispute regarding whether the defendants' treatment of the decedent within the seven-year period was negligent.