Personal Injury Law

Arbitration a growing trend in health care

By Sam G. Nicholson and Harry D. Revell

Legal experts say such attempts to channel potentially unhappy patients away from the court system and into arbitration are becoming increasingly common in health care. Agreements to settle future disputes with binding arbitration, in which an appointed individual or small panel decides the case instead of a judge or jury, are now pervasive in contracts involving many other things we buy, including credit cards, cell phones and cars.

Full post as published by Nicholson Revell on February 12, 2008 (boomark / email).