Vicarious Liability: Relocating Responsibility For The Quality Of Medical Care

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 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...

Vicarious Liability of Hospitals

Collecting Liability for Compensation for Medical Accidents

Compensation for damages caused by medical accidents is one of the important issues that have led to the transformation of social life into responsibility. The increasing number of accidents caused by medical practices and the consequent increase in casualties to patients makes it more than necessary to investigate the issue. While the legal system of some countries, including France, has taken...

Health care in crisis: the need for medical liability reform.