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Former health minister Michael Scott has accused hospital authorities of “aggressive” tactics in trying to rid themselves of a lawsuit from a man who was paralysed while in their care.
The Opposition politician also claimed the way that the Bermuda H...
DATE: Nov 04, 2015
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Corporate lawyers are to volunteer their time to help local charities.
The Centre on Philanthropy, an umbrella organisation for the third sector, is offering a two-hour pro bono corporate legal clinic to its members for the first time to allow non-pr...
DATE: Oct 30, 2015
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Hospital chiefs will seek legal costs from a quadriplegic who was paralysed after an accident at Bermuda’s only mental hospital.
Thomas Hofer, 52, recently lost an 18-year legal battle to sue the Bermuda Hospitals Board for massive damages for injuri...
DATE: Oct 30, 2015
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Sam Strangeways
Auditor-General Heather Jacobs Matthews has pledged to complete four years’ worth of outstanding annual reports from her office by the time she retires next month.
The law requires that the reports are released each year by November 30 or soon after ...
DATE: Oct 23, 2015
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Bermuda Hospitals Board has gone public on its use of a contrast dye which is being investigated in the United States for potential harmful effects.
The board, which recently apologised and paid compensation to widower Allan DeSilva for administering...
DATE: Oct 22, 2015
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Health
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Sam Strangeways
Bermuda Hospitals Board has apologised and paid compensation to a widower whose late wife was given a substance which was the subject of public health warnings and may have contributed to her death.
Allan DeSilva has battled BHB for three years to ge...
DATE: Oct 15, 2015
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Althea Overbey thought she had experienced a miracle after surviving risky surgery to remove a brain tumour just a few months after her son was born in 1985.
Now, 30 years later, she is convinced she has benefited from another divine intervention.
Ms...
DATE: Oct 09, 2015
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Health
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Sam Strangeways
A life-saving drug used to reverse heroin overdoses can now be administered by all emergency medical technicians in Bermuda without a doctor’s approval after hospital chiefs acted on a coroner’s recommendation.
Bermuda Hospitals Board has changed its...
DATE: Oct 08, 2015
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Health
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Sam Strangeways
A legal battle between Bermuda Hospitals Board and a patient who suffered an agonising wait for surgery has attracted the attention of lawyers for Britain’s national health service.
The NHS Litigation Authority has applied to intervene in the case in...
DATE: Oct 07, 2015
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Health
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Sam Strangeways
Citizens were encouraged yesterday to submit freedom of information requests even when they believe the records they request may not be released.
Information commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez, in a live online question-and-answer session with readers ...
DATE: Oct 02, 2015
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