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Family not bound by med-mal arbitration agreement (access required)

Published: June 26, 2009

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Family members generally are not bound by a physician-patient arbitration agreement in a wrongful death case, a California Court of Appeal has ruled. A wife and children filed a wrongful death claim against the doctor following the death of the husband. The wife conceded that she was bound by an arbitration agreement, but claimed that the ...
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