Claims and Jurisdictions in Medical Matters Disputes

Application of Engineering Management Information on Construction Disputes and Claims

The high risk, uncertainty and complicated interface for division of work in the construction industry have resulted in endless engineering dispute issues. Submitting claims during the performance of construction contracts can be money wasting and time-consuming process. This paper summarizes dispute issues occur often on construction site, clarifies what responsibility each party should bear, ...

Conflicting Jurisdictions Over Disputes Arising From the Application of Trade-Related Environmental Measures

The claims of medical foods

Health claims for medical foods Souvenaid (Nutricia, Zoetermeer, the Netherlands) is a medical food for the dietary management of early Alzheimer’s disease. The mix of nutrients in this drink is suggested to have a beneficial effect on cognitive function; such implicit health claims for medical foods are not checked by government agencies. Souvenaid has been investigated in three clinical trial...

Toward a child-centered approach to evaluating claims of alienation in high-conflict custody disputes.

Theories of parental alienation abound in high-conflict custody cases. The image of one parent brainwashing a child against the other parent fits with what we think we know about family dynamics during divorce. The concept of a diagnosable "Parental Alienation Syndrome" ("PAS") developed as an attempt to explain this phenomenon, but it has been widely discredited by mental health professionals ...

Pharmaceutical advertisement claims in Australian medical publications.

OBJECTIVE To determine the quality of claims in advertisements published in Australian medical publications, describe how benefits and harms are presented, and examine the level of underpinning evidence. DESIGN AND SETTING Audit of a consecutive three-month sample of advertisements appearing in six popular Australian medical publications. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Proportion of advertisements w...

Tort claims and adverse events in emergency medical services.

STUDY OBJECTIVE Emergency medical services (EMS) provide care to acutely ill or injured patients in settings less controlled than other health care environments. Although reports describing individual EMS adverse events exist, few broader descriptions exist. The objective of the study is to characterize the types, frequencies, and outcomes of adverse events associated with insurance tort claims...