Sentence examples for litigation leads from inspiring English sources

Finally, Mr. Enthoven cites studies showing that frivolous malpractice litigation leads doctors to hide their mistakes and practice defensive medicine by providing needless and therefore needlessly risky procedures to ward off future accusation of negligence.

Re "Universal Health Care" (letter, Oct. 20): If government played a more public role in our health care system, patients might be less willing to use complications and bad outcomes as tickets to the "malpractice lottery" because they will be publicly responsible for the increased costs that frivolous litigation leads to.

My experience in estate litigation leads me to conclude that most undue influence activities later challenged in court occur when the elder is at stage 2 or 3 on the Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) scale.

There are lots of ways to do this, but the #1 best and leading way for trustees to milk fees is to manufacture a dispute with the beneficiaries -- this leads to litigation, and litigation leads to fees.

According to several studies, the risk of malpractice litigation leads to the practice of defensive medicine [ 3, 4, 10- 12].

Sponsorship by parties involved in litigation leads to an imbalance in the literature (Michaels and Monforton 2007).

In Texas, more than a decade of litigation led to an order to overhaul school spending in 1989.

Fear of litigation led New York City officials to remove seesaws, merry-go-rounds and the ropes that young Tarzans used to swing from one platform to another.

The litigation led New Milford to revise its Scenic Road Ordinance in November so it no longer strictly prohibits changes on such roads, Mr. Sienkiewicz said.

The affirmative action litigation led to the Supreme Court's 2003 decision that while a university could not establish racial quotas, it could consider race or ethnicity as a "plus" factor in a holistic review.

In the case that the United States Supreme Court will review on Monday, the dizzying pace of the presidential litigation led to an odd legal twist, akin to a controversial cart being placed before a rather important horse.