medical malpractice
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Orthopaedic surgeon ordered to pay $100,000 to patient after back surgery
An orthopaedic surgeon was ordered by a Quebec court to pay a Quebec City man $100,000 in non-pecuniary damages after he was found to be at fault for one of three back surgeries he performed on the patient. Continue reading
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Family of non-smoker awarded $1.7 million
The family of a non-smoker who died of lung cancer at the age of 44 was awarded $1.7 million after the Quebec Court of Appeal held that two doctors were negligent in a case that draws on the rarely used notion of “unfavourable inference” of proof of causation, a development applauded by medical malpractice legal… Continue reading