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In our second installment, we asked Lonny Rosen and Joshua Lerner the same nine questions and recorded their responses. Lonny is an experienced health law advocate and founding partner of Rosen Sunshine LLP, while Joshua is a fourth-year associate at the firm.

Top legal pandemic issues for health care providers for the fall of 2021.

An interview with Nada Nicola-Howorth and Zahra Vaid.

Lawyers experience mental illness more than the general population as well as the majority of other professionals. The elevated incidence of mental illness in the legal profession is particularly concerning considering the connection between mental illness and disciplinary complaints.

Puzzling delays result in Health Colleges prosecuting members for sexual abuse.

Note: This article was originally published in the September-October 2018 Alberta Doctors’ Digest. It is reprinted with permission from the authors.

Note: This article was originally published on the Carbert Waite LLP website. It is reprinted with permission.

At the request of Ontario’s Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, the Hon. Stephen Goudge, Q.C., former Justice of the Ontario Court of Appeal, conducted a review of the Ontario civil justice system as it relates to medical liability cases. He was tasked with finding ways to reduce the costs of those cases as well as increasing efficiency.

Dr. Horne was a staff cardiologist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, operated by the Capital District Health Authority. She was appointed to Queen Elizabeth Hospital on the understanding that her practice would be research-intensive, and this was reflected in her letter of appointment.

Interdisciplinary and comparative research aims to establish: (a) if the challenge in differentiating between short-term and chronic psychological pain is legally problematic for the Canadian justice system;...