Tailoring Negligence Standards to Accident Records

Study of accident and emergency case records

Background On Sunday 11th of December 2005, an explosion occurred at the Buncefield oil depot, Hertfordshire, resulting in a large fire that blazed for several days. Two Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments were placed on stand-by to receive casualties. A simple surveillance system was put in place during the acute phase of the incident, but this was not adequate to fully examine the health...

Medical records and record-keeping standards.

The structure of medical records becomes ever more critical with the advent of electronic records. The Health Informatics Unit (HIU) of the Royal College of Physicians has two work streams in this area. The Records Standards programme is developing generic standards for all entries into medical notes and standards for the content of admission, handover and discharge records. The Information Lab...

Proof That Auto Insurance Rating by Accident Record Predicts Miles not Negligence: Fault is Predictively Irrelevant

“It was established beyond the shadow of a doubt that the individual who is involved in automobile accidents, regardless of whether he appears to cause them or not, is much more likely to have accidents in the future than is the person who is accident free....[I]nvolvement in an accident regardless of who was at fault, was the important consideration.” Insurance company letter to an attorney re...

A review of 105 negligence claims against accident and emergency departments.

OBJECTIVE To examine 105 successive negligence claims against NHS accident and emergency (A&E) departments in the United Kingdom and to highlight risk management points. METHODS A systematic review of sociodemographic, clinical, and legal issues was conducted on each claim. RESULTS 54 claims involved the missed diagnosis of a fracture because of failure to x ray or to interpret the films co...

Is Negligence a First Cousin to Intentionality? Lay Conceptions of Negligence and Its Relationship to Intentionality