Suits by patients surge in misdiagnosed AIDS cases; lawyers say clients trust doctors, take AZT, lose families and prepare to die

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Lawsuits over misdiagnosis of AIDS and HIV have proliferated recently, brought against physicians and laboratories by patients who thought for years they had a lethal, incurable disease. While there are only three reported cases, many others have gone through lower courts, with one recent award of $4.1 million. Courts have divided over whether physical injury is required to permit emotional distress claims in states that normally demand it. The suits are generally akin to other medical malpractice suits.

Cases, Diagnostic errors, Malpractice, AIDS (Disease), states

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N.J. lawyers balk at pro bono order: Megan's Law ruling set hearings, but not payment

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Lawyers in New Jersey are fighting an order to work pro bono for convicted sex offenders who are contesting the level of risk they present in connection with a community notification requirement. Lawyers say these hearings would take days, following days of preparation, that appeals could follow and that payment for expert witnesses is uncertain. NJ Chief Justice Robert N. Wilentz issued a memo in September 1995 directing that a list of pro bono lawyers, preferably the 'best and brightest,' be compiled.

Laws, regulations and rules, Sex offenders, New Jersey, Right to counsel

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Lawyers eye Vietnam ventures

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Improving relations between the US and Vietnam and US stopping of a 17-year embargo against the country may provide increased membership for the Vietnam-American Chamber of Commerce. Attorneys and businessmen have been stepping up business trips there to investigate commercial possibilities. Other countries have also shown interest in doing business with Vietnam, a poor country with resources such as off-shore oil and fisheries which need to be developed. The low-wage labor force is also attractive.

Analysis, Vietnam, United States foreign relations, Vietnamese foreign relations, Foreign trade promotion

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