Putting A Percentage on Survival: Understanding Loss of Chance Medical Malpractice Claims by Abbye Alexander, Christopher Tellner, & Henry Norwood, Esq., published in Reuters, 9-12-2024

Medical malpractice cases often involve clear, definable injuries to patients, rendering issues of causation and harm straightforward. However, in some malpractice actions, such as those involving failure to diagnose or failure to timely attend to a patient, causation and injury can be less clear because the patient’s actual harm arises from the continued, untreated progression of their ailment — not the provider’s conduct.
Authors Henry Norwood, Abbey Alexander, Christopher Tellner  

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