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Personal Injury & Torts

Aug. 20, 2003

Victim's Kin Can Sue Psychiatrists

LOS ANGELES - Psychiatrists can be sued over the death of a woman murdered by a patient they had released from an involuntary commitment in a hospital because he didn't have insurance, an appellate court ruled Monday.

By Lawrence Kootnikoff
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        LOS ANGELES - Psychiatrists can be sued over the death of a woman murdered by a patient they had released from an involuntary commitment in a hospital because he didn't have insurance, an appellate court ruled Monday.

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