Alarm bells sound as prospect of greater activity in medical competence arena raises indemnity shortcomings

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Alarm bells sound as prospect of greater activity in medical competence arena raises indemnity shortcomings

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Vanessa Weenink

Judge, lawyer, law, justice court, doctor
In Australia, where the courts determine fault, the medicolegal industry is in disarray following the collapse of the largest medical defence organisation in 2002

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Ross Blair, retired thoracic and vascular surgeon, is chair of medical defence company Medicus. He previously spent seven years on the panel of the Medical Protection Society. He is worried about vulnerability he sees in the medicolegal environment in New Zealand

From being relatively stable and equitable, there are worrying signs that the New Zealand medicolegal climate is heating up. New Zealand doctors s