It’s not my fault although it might be: chiropractic practice and vicarious liability

Vicarious liability for infringement

When is it proper to hold one person liable for the harm caused by the acts of another person? How should courts decide that? Let’s consider that in the context of manufacturers and disseminators of innovative products such as player-piano rolls, copiers, videocassette recorders (VCRs), TiVo, and Grokster. Each of these technological advances has challenged copyright law. Courts had to decide, ...

Vicarious Liability of Hospitals

Vicarious liability for anesthesiologists.

Vicarious liability for anesthesiologists In the recent effort to convince the Health Care Financing Administration (now known as Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) to let state legislators rather than a federal bureaucracy determine whether nurse anesthetists had to be supervised, anesthesiologists tried to obscure the fact that any administrator of anesthesia can sometimes have an un...

Why the Market Did Not Encourage It and How It Might Be Made to Do So

PREFACE The purpose of this report is to explore the economics of vehicle safety, an area heretofore apparently neglected by economists. In addition, the report suggests fruitful research areas for the NHSB that could contribute to providing greater economic incentives for vehicle safety. Wolf for their helpful comments and criticisms.-ii-SUMMARY This report examines four topics: the relative m...

Family practice OB: to be or not to be? Liability is the question.

Will the family physicians (FP) of the future (including the near future and not just the distant future) be able to include maternity care (OB or obstetrics) in their practices? The title of this editorial, with apologies to William Shakespeare for my literary license, focuses on both a frightening current reality and a very timely study in this issue of the Journal of the American Board of Fa...