Panel Remands Rehab Patient’s UCL Claim Against Doctor For Causing Relapse

(January 25, 2023, 12:20 PM EST) -- SAN DIEGO — A California panel affirmed in part and reversed in part a trial court’s orders granting summary judgment and sustaining a drug rehabilitation doctor’s demurrer to claims brought by a former patient who accuses him of violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) by negligently prescribing the patient benzodiazepines, which she says caused her to black out and relapse into heroin use....

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