Private Hospitals Operator Triumphs in £20 Million Insurance Dispute
No matter how long and technical the wording of an insurance policy may be, it may contain ambiguities that can only be resolved with expert legal assistance. A case on point concerned an eight-figure loss sustained by an operator of private hospitals arising from a breast surgeon’s negligent and criminal acts. The company inherited the liabilities of a predecessor which owned private hospitals where the surgeon performed operations. The General Medical Council suspended him from practising on the basis that he had negligently performed numerous mastectomy operations on breast cancer patients (the negligent operations). He was subsequently convicted of assaulting …
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