How to Use malpractice in a Sentence
malpractice
noun- Doctors need to have malpractice insurance to protect themselves against lawsuits.
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From the minute the raid occurred, Trump has been trying to paint the seizure as the real malpractice at hand.
— Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2022 -
Gregory was startled at the news, as was the judge in his malpractice suit against Wood.
— BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2022 -
The press tends to gloss over the dog whistles, but years of this malpractice has led to the whistles becoming as loud as bullhorns.
— Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 16 May 2022 -
In the absence of any actionable malpractice, those who have lost out — adults all — will be left to pay the price of their gambling.
— Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 27 Feb. 2021 -
Lawyers in the malpractice case were arguing over whether the claims were barred by the statute of limitations.
— Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2021 -
Varughese and Sun are both defendants in the malpractice case.
— Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 23 June 2023 -
The suit charges the doctors involved with malpractice and lack of informed consent.
— Jackson Walker, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2024 -
Not to file a protective refund claim would, in my mind, be malpractice.
— Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021 -
That probe turned up more malpractice and a decision to dismiss charges that never should have been brought.
— The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2020 -
That's like campaign malpractice to run an ad two years before a campaign.
— Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 22 May 2024 -
To some pundits, the early dismissals of the lab thesis now look like media malpractice.
— Washington Post, 10 June 2021 -
The patient went on the make a moderate recovery but became one of the first high-profile malpractice cases in the state.
— Torie Bosch, STAT, 17 Feb. 2024 -
Far from being acts of compassion, these would be acts of malpractice.
— Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 28 Mar. 2024 -
The human toll of the low quality is detailed in wrongful death malpractice claims.
— Tim Evans, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Aug. 2020 -
The lessons of the Blum case are not limited to the tax treatment of legal malpractice recoveries.
— Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021 -
To hear Robert White tell it, the steady rise in fat malpractice payouts won’t inspire public trust in the medical system.
— Glen Luke Flanagan, Fortune, 5 July 2024 -
Aid Access has found a malpractice carrier who would cover them, one of the doctors says.
— Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022 -
Physicians, therefore, who use impure virus ought to be held to the strictest legal account for malpractice.
— Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2021 -
At least 18 other patients have sued Chiu alleging malpractice in the last two decades.
— Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2021 -
More to the point, the censure was political malpractice.
— Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 14 Feb. 2022 -
Ray filed a civil suit against Peter Hackett in 2012 for wrongful death and malpractice.
— Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 14 July 2023 -
The board records note that Roberts, who previously practiced in Colorado, was the subject of a malpractice lawsuit in that state.
— oregonlive, 4 Mar. 2021 -
One sticking point for the committee has been if, or how, to publicize malpractice claims settled out of court.
— Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2022 -
The caller had a suspicious accent and said there were malpractice claims against the doctor and he may be arrested.
— cleveland, 30 Apr. 2021 -
Rez Dogs’ exclusion is straight-up malpractice, the kind of snub that (further) discredits the Emmys.
— Time, 12 July 2023 -
After a query about the injection to one of the pharmacy’s owners, a medical-malpractice lawyer sent an email.
— C.j. Chivers, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023 -
The killer was a homeless electrician who had lost a medical malpractice suit in her courtroom.
— Jessica Gresko, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2022 -
This is why the Tolkien estate closely guarded its intellectual property for so long, and serves now as glaring evidence of the kind of creative malpractice its former stewards were concerned about.
— Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024 -
But his efforts are short-lived, especially when Alice inadvertently gets him to promise to keep committing therapist malpractice.
— Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2024
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