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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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2009
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mal·prac·tice
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n.
improper, illegal, or negligent professional activity or treatment, esp. by a medical practitioner, lawyer, or public official:
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investigations into malpractices and abuses of power.
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+(via+Knight-Ridder%2fTribune+Business+News) "The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)")
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Malpractice ruling may shake system, experts say.
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News); 7/24/2005; 700+ words
; ...furious debates about rising medical malpractice rates, Wisconsin was a bastion of civility...declared that the state's cap on medical malpractice awards for non-economic damages...that contributed to the good medical malpractice environment in Wisconsin," said Theresa...
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Malpractice is the problem not the high cost of malpractice insurance.
Newspaper article from: HealthFacts; 2/1/2003; 700+ words
; We are in the grip of a malpractice insurance crisis because doctors...told, as a result of astronomical malpractice awards, many of them frivolous...conveyed by the media whenever a malpractice insurance crisis resurfaces every...
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Malpractice myths and coverups.(medical malpractice)
Newspaper article from: Nutrition Health Review; 6/22/2005; 700+ words
; Mention the subject of medical malpractice, and the debate will most likely focus...investigate how much of the blame frivolous malpractice suits deserve. The study centered on five large malpractice insurers that offered their records for...
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Malpractice proposals calsh with Indiana law
Magazine article from: Indianapolis Business Journal; 1/31/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...health care costs by capping medical malpractice awards could create questions in Indiana...or the pain and suffering portions of malpractice awards, because he and others believe...Indiana and 26 other states. Victims of malpractice in the Hoosier State can recover up...
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Malpractice caps can bring more doctors to an area.
Newspaper article from: State Health Watch; 8/1/2005; 700+ words
; Malpractice caps can bring more doctors to an area...reason for wanting to enact caps on malpractice awards, one of the tangential benefits...payments for noneconomic damages in malpractice cases and whether those laws have increased...
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MALPRACTICE CAPS LURE DOCTORS.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); 6/1/2005; 700+ words
; ...injured patients can seek in medical malpractice lawsuits have seen doctors flock to...states that have recently adopted malpractice reforms, even though a third study found that growth in malpractice payments was no greater than the overall...
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Malpractice cases are real issue
Newspaper article from: Herald News, The (Joliet, IL); 5/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...rights of those harmed or killed by medical malpractice should be taken away. The claim is that medical malpractice claims and lawsuits in recent years have increased, resulting in high malpractice insurance premiums and reduced access to healthcare...
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Malpractice rates soar
Magazine article from: Central Penn Business Journal; 6/15/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Lancaster General Hospital's malpractice insurance costs have more than...returns on investments, rising malpractice costs present another financial...take," Young said. I think malpractice costs are going to affect every...
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Malpractice insurance crisis hurts area hospitals.(Focus: HEALTH CARE)
Magazine article from: Westchester County Business Journal; 6/13/2005; 700+ words
; ...New York area have experienced annual malpractice premium increases of 27 percent per...These increases, coupled with a drop in malpractice carriers that are willing or able to...association's new report, Medical Malpractice Insurance Costs and Coverage, which...
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Malpractice by Physical Therapists: Descriptive Analysis of Reports in the National Practitioner Data Bank Public Use Data File, 1991-2004
Magazine article from: Journal of Allied Health; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...of this study was to describe malpractice by physical therapists in the...States based on physical therapist malpractice reports in the National Practitioner...related to physical therapist malpractice reports was performed. The relationship...
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Malpractice
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
MALPRACTICE The breach by a member of a profession...standard of care or a standard of conduct. Malpractice refers to negligence or misconduct by...by a profession reaches the level of malpractice when a client or patient is injured...
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Medical Malpractice
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE Improper, unskilled, or negligent...liability concerning allegations of medical malpractice, making this type of litigation part of tort law. Since the 1970s, medical malpractice has been a controversial social issue...
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Legal Malpractice
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
LEGAL MALPRACTICE A lawyer is obligated to comply with...most commonly associated with legal malpractice. This category is based on the premise...to real estate may be charged with malpractice by their clients. A legal malpractice...
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malpractice
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
malpractice failure to provide professional services...other professionals can be charged with malpractice, the term is most commonly associated...hospital technicians.) Most medical malpractice suits are for negligence on the part...
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Clergy Malpractice
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
CLERGY MALPRACTICE A breach of the duty owed by a member...her parishioner. A claim for clergy malpractice asserts that a member of the clergy...Generally speaking, most clergy malpractice cases are couched in terms of tort...
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