Law 3101A/B Chapter Notes -Viral Load, Cerebral Palsy, Punitive Damages
18 Apr 2013
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Canada has become a more legalistic and litigious society. 3. 5-fold increase in the number of civil suits brought against canadian physicians between 1976 and 2010. 100-fold increase in the related costs of responding to complaints and actions. Canadian medical protective association (cmpa: organization that advises and represents physicians in legal matters, opened almost 20000 new files involving complaints against physicians in. million in damage awards and settlements. million in fees for experts and consultants. Volume of litigation involving other health professionals appears to have increased as well. Factors that explain the expanding role of law in treatment: rise in concern about the legal rights of patients and clients. Paternalistic concepts have increasingly given way to rights-based notions of treatments. Ontario enacted 4 new health statutes that came into force 1995, only to repeal 2 of them and amend the remaining 2 the following year: the law has evolved with developments in health services.
