In what seems to be an increasing phenomenon, injured plaintiffs/insureds are being asked to sign Consent Forms when they attend a tort defence medical examination or an insurer examination (“IE”) ...
Institutional review boards (IRBs) are charged with safeguarding potential research subjects with limited literacy but may have an inadvertent role in promulgating unreadable consent forms. We ...
Ethicists have suggested that written consent forms encourage participants in phase 1 cancer trials to expect benefit from the experimental agent and to overlook serious risks. Of 272 forms, 268 ...