Occupiers' Liability Act 1957 and the Liability of Hospitals

Vicarious Liability of Hospitals

Law Enforcement; a Function of Criminal Liability or Civil Liability

Despite the fact that in investigations and legal writings enough consideration has been paid to the founding principles and rules governing civil and criminal liability as well as damages of crime, the legal or disciplinary responsibility accompanying these two types of legal responsibilities has not been taken seriously into account and the people involved it - in particular, the authorities ...

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...

PTSD in railroad drivers under the Federal employers' liability act.

Railroad and subway drivers can experience psychological trauma when trains strike or nearly miss other trains, motor vehicles, or persons or become instruments of death. Derailments, collisions, and suicides on the tracks can induce feelings of helplessness, horror, guilt, and anxiety in the drivers. Although some drivers experience acute stress disorder (ASD) or post-traumatic stress disorder...

The Place of Fault on the Civil Liability of Physicians and its Comparison with the General Rule of Civil Liability in Jurisprudence and Law of Iran

Whether all the actions of the physician in relation to the patient are considered to be the subject of a single person, or are it separable, in which case each one is subject to general rules or to some particular rule? In analyzing the functions of the physician during the course of cognitive therapy, applicants who discuss medical professional responsibilities examine medical practices of a ...