Legal Opinion
Hospital Ass'n v. Axelrod
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided October 29, 1985PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*10OPINION OF THE COURT
Levine, J.
In the spring and early summer of 1985, New York’s medical community engaged in a strenuous public campaign for substantive and procedural reform of the State’s medical malpractice liability system. In several parts of the State, the protests were so intense that physicians engaged in slowdowns and refusals to provide other than emergency services. Among the concerns particularly expressed were the rapid escalation of malpractice insurance premium rates and a trend in jury awards in malpractice cases which practitioners believed exposed them to the risk of being…
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