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Health Care & Hospital Law

Mar. 4, 2000

Practice Perils

A majority of Americans are now enrolled in some type of managed-care organization, including the most widely known managed care model, the health maintenance organization. That success has attracted the attention of many plaintiffs' attorneys.

By T. Joshua Ritz
        A majority of Americans are now enrolled in some type of managed-care organization, including the most widely known managed care model, the health maintenance organization. That success has attracted the attention of many plaintiffs' attorneys. A majority of the most recent lawsuits targeting MCOs rely on aggressive extensions of familiar common-law tort theorie...

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