Doctors may need ‘special protection’ from future COVID-19 lawsuits
Despite low cases numbers, there remain other legal threats to doctors resulting from the outbreak, claims Professor Anne-Maree Kelly
Doctors need extra legal protections against “not-so-obvious” medical negligence claims emerging from the COVID-19 threat, a medicolegal expert is warning.
US state governments, including those in New York and Michigan, are offering their doctors legal immunity because of the clinical risks they are taking in systems overwhelmed by COVID-19 cases.
