Claim Values Increase: WA Government May Profit from Medical Claims
An interesting recent development with the potential to increase the damages for which negligent health professionals (and so their medical indemnity insurers and medical defence organisations) will be liable, is the apparently growing trend by our WA public hospitals of classifying patients as “compensable.” This then permits (or at least it is claimed to permit) the hospital/health department to charge commercial rates for the provision of its medical services.
There is considerable mystery as to how…