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Always Liability Increases (ALI)?  Not Yet with Medical Monitoring.

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There was an insufficient time to discuss the Torts: Medical Malpractice draft. 2005), in preference to two federal court decisions rejecting no-injury medical monitoring and recent Tennessee Supreme Court precedent retaining present injury generally. Actions Taken Membership voted to approve §§48D-48F (Sepulcher) of the draft.

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Confident Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

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They’re experienced at what they do and aren’t intimidated by plaintiffs’ counsel and their threats of malpractice claims if they don’t testify the way plaintiffs want them to. procedure that existed at the time of [plaintiff’s] injury”; malpractice was “intervening cause”) (applying Kansas law); Eck v. 2005 WL 3440440, at *5-6 (D.N.J.

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Live Free, or at Least Have a Present Injury

Drug & Device Law

2005), aff’d , 230 F. 2005 WL 5891911 (Minn. April 26, 2005). Right now, the schedule for the meeting has debate on the “Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Medical Malpractice & Miscellaneous Provisions” – which includes the medical monitoring proposal – set for Monday, May 22 at 10:30 a.m. Union Carbide Corp.,