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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedCOBRA no basis for suit in infant death, court rules. (Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act)
National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, February, 1993 by Cox, Brian
The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act does not provide a woman with the grounds to sue the University of Chicago Hospital for turning away an ambulance carrying her critically-ill infant daughter, a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled, overturning a decision by three of its judges.
"The previous decision exposed us to a world of risk," said Susan Phillips, vice president of governmental and public affairs with the University of Chicago Hospital. "We're very pleased with the court's action. Not only for us, but on behalf of every hospital," she added. The full 7th Circuit in Chicago recently ruled that because one-month-old Lenice Johnson had not actually arrived on the University of Chicago Hospital grounds - but was in an ambulance en...
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