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In the years after being rear-ended in a car accident, Liese Bruff-McArthur saw a small army of medical professionals. Most agreed the crash had left her with chronic pain, depression, PTSD and other troubles, making a return to work untenable.

Then she met Dr. Monte Bail.

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Hired by the insurance company she was suing, the psychiatrist spent an hour and a quarter with the Ottawa-area woman — the kind of work that earned Bail as much as $77,000 a month — and concluded Bruff-McArthur was essentially faking it.

After listening to the doctor’s testimony late last year, a jury awarded the motorist nominal compensation, which meant she would actually get nothing.

But then a judge did something unusual, castigating Bail for biased, invented evidence in the “guise” of being a medical expert. A few months later, a different judge cited that case and others and refused to even let the psychiatrist examine another accident victim.