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Utah Senate Bill 150 threatens negligent credentialing as a valid cause of action

In February, Utah Sen. J. Stuart Adams ­proposed Senate Bill (S.B.) 150, which aims to no longer ­recognize negligent credentialing as a valid cause of action in ­medical malpractice cases. In other words, if this bill ­passes and a physician is sued for malpractice, the ­plaintiff cannot seek the hospital's deeper pockets by claiming that it was negligent in credentialing the ­physician. Rather, the plaintiff would only be able to go after the physician.

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