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The Pathology (and Politics) of Liability Shields

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First, nursing homes and assisted living facilities are seeing large numbers of suits , particularly for failures in infection control. It also questions whether shields reflect good public policy and suggests some of the politics that seemed to drive the legislators that voted for them. Of course, there are always exceptions.

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