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‘GPs under pressure to do more in less time’: Plaintiff lawyer says negligence claims are increasing

COVID-19, burnout and time pressures have fuelled claims, says lawyer Michael Passaro.

Personal injury lawyer Michael Passaro has witnessed a lot.

The senior managing solicitor at Law Partners has been the lawyer for Nadine Lont, whose baby died at Victoria’s Latrobe Regional Hospital in 2024.

He has seen GPs who have missed cancers, emergency doctors who failed to triage patients correctly and a surgical team that failed to properly count their instruments, overlooking a retained object that led to organ failure.

He says the ripples of the COVID-19 pandemic are still felt in terms of care that was put on hold.

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