Legal Opinion
Pinheiro v. Medical Malpractice Joint Underwriting Ass'n
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 14, 1989PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGreaney, J.
In these cases, we are called on to decide the scope of a limitation of liability provision in a medical malpractice insurance policy issued by The Medical Malpractice Joint Underwriting Association of Massachusetts (JUA). The provision in question reads as follows:
“The limit of liability stated in the declarations as applicable to ‘each claim’ is the limit of the company’s liability for loss resulting from any one claim or suit or all claims or suits because of injury to or death of any one person.”
Specifically, we must decide whether the patient’s claim for malpractice, and any claim for…
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