Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Malpractice complaints, once a relative rarity, have become commonplace. As recently as 1960, most physicians could expect to go through a lifetime of practice without seeing a summons. Now, reports a 44-state study, one out of every seven general surgeons is facing a malpractice complaint. The sums involved can be substantial. Most malpractice suits are settled out of court for less than $2,000, but awards of $1 million or more have become increasingly common. Last month a Florida court awarded Dentist Leonard Tolley, 58, and his wife Elsa a total of $1,685,000 after finding that surgery...
This photographer was living in Apley Court when he explained his theory, with his pots and his cameras and the ever-growing draft of his complaint and maybe a roommate or two, and he wasn't too happy about it. "I'd kind of like to live in a House," he said wistfully, "but I tried it and there are just too many stimuli, you know? --Everywhere you look, there are signs and people and things to do, stimuli. I've tried it, and I just couldn't manage it--this is as close as I can come...
...declined to comment on the means of White's complaint...
...charges, field last year as an official complaint by Delda H. White, director of the Radcliffe Publications Office, on behalf of Women Employed at Harvard, include a list of women employees of the University who are paid less than men who White says hold the same positions...
John B. Butler, director of personnel planning, said yesterday that Patricia Slate, the Labor Department's primary investigator on the complaint, has been at Harvard within the last month...