Medical Malpractice and Awareness of Professional Liability Insurance among Physicians and Surgeons in Nigeria
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Liability and liability insurance for medical malpractice.
Physicians typically carry virtually complete malpractice insurance coverage. This contradicts standard theoretical predictions that under a negligence rule of liability there should be no demand for insurance, and insurance policies under moral hazard will contain co-payment provisions. It is argued that judicial 'errors' in defining negligence generate a demand for liability and legal defense...
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Although the most visible manifestations of medical malpractice involve patient safety and the legal process, the availability and affordability of liability insurance largely determine the direction of medical malpractice policy. Scientific and industrial developments since the first modern malpractice crisis in the 1970s reveal major problems with the structure and regulation of liability ins...
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P_ hysicians and other medical providers are subject to a negligence rule of liability. To prevail, a plaintiff must show that he or she sustained damages that were caused by the failure of the physician to take due care, defined as customary practice of physicians in good standing with the profession, or a significant minority of such physicians. In a simple model, with perfect information and...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Dunarea de Jos University of Galati. Fascicle I. Economics and Applied Informatics
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1584-0409,2344-441X
DOI: 10.35219/eai15840409122