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Large compensation awards increase

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Healthcare Market News (News) May 2005The Medical Defence Union (MDU) paid seven times more claims exceeding £1m in 2004 than it did in 1995. The MDU, which indemnifies over half of UK doctors, paid seven patients more than £1m for claims and legal costs made against GPs and hospital doctors in private practice last year…

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