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Criminal & CivilI am baffled that lawyers don't have a better understanding of this. I called dozens without getting an accurate appraisal of this situation when I first began researching it. Even a judge said I was confusing criminal and civil law in assuming that liability limitations would protect a healthcare practitioner who committed a crime against you. You, as a private citizen, cannot sue someone for committing a crime against you. No one but the county prosecutor can file a suit for the commission of a crime. The only thing you can sue someone for is civil damages. And those are subject to liability limitations. When your surgeon commits a crime against you, the amount for which you can sue him or her is governed by liability limitations. But there is no limit on the amount for which your surgeon can sue you merely for speaking about it. * * * For the matter to come to the attention of the county prosecutor, it must first go through the police. Elsewhere on this site are pages about how the police don't want to "criminalize" medicine and routinely refuse to let patients file reports about crimes committed against them in health care. If you punch a doctor, they will arrest you. If the doctor punches you, they won't even let you file a report. The county prosecutor is not likely to be filing a suit for you. Hit your back button to return to where you were |
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