The ruling allows physicians to bring damages claims against hospitals before exhausting administrative proceedings, a decision some say could weaken the peer review process
Updates to the NPDB Guidebook are being met with some resistance from legal and regulatory organizations, particularly concerning the way in which the NPDB defines an investigation.
The Commonwealth of Kentucky Court of Appeals (the "Court"), in an unpublished opinion, upheld a trial court judgment and four pretrial orders relating to a patient's claims of medical malpractice and medical battery against physicians, and independent claims against a hospital...
