Payout may open negligence floodgates

The Medical Defence Union last month threw in its hand on the second day of a nine-day High Court trial and agreed to pay £1.57m to Richard Sheppard, who collapsed in the street minutes after leaving his GP's surgery and suffered brain damage. He had gone to see his doctor ...

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