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Judge says Nebraska liable for bulk of any successful hepatitis lawsuits

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, November 1st, 2004

A Nebraska judge ruled that the state's malpractice fund is liable for the bulk of any judgments against Tahir Javed the former Fremont physician accused of causing the largest hepatitis C outbreak of its kind in the United States.

Javed is accused of using unsanitary practices that caused 99 people, including one who died, to contract the disease at his Fremont Cancer Clinic between March 2000 and December 2001.

Ninety-nine lawsuits have been filed against Javed and his now defunct clinic and the Fremont Area Medical Center.

Javed's malpractice insurance policy, issued by Medical Protective Co. of Fort Wayne, Indiana, set limits...

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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2004-11-01)

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