DURING THE PAST 30 YEARS, THERE HAVE BEEN 3 SEPArate medical liability crises. In the first 2 crises, which occurred in the 1970s and the 1980s, either physicians experienced increasingly unaffordable insurance premiums or many specialists were unable to purchase insurance at any price. The current crisis has elements of both, especially for high-risk specialties. Cumulatively, the recurrent cr...

one of the evolutions in tort law is the colectivisation of civil liability. in the past, civil liability was collective and the effects of the person guilty haven imposed on the all members of family. then with developing of civilizations and with appearance of principle of personal liability, the collective liability has been changed to personal liability. but nowadays according to the opinio...

The objective of the present work is to analyze civil liability doctor as a public agent or exercising function in private law companies that provide services. Detailing detailed way requirements for configuration liability: conduct, damage and causal link, well hypotheses exclusion liability, their nature, species medical errors, especially acts performed health. Analyzing possibilities solida...

The aim of the present study is to propose legal reform limiting surgeons' criminal liability in high-accuracy and high-risk surgery such as endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS). The study includes a review of the medical literature, focusing on identifying and examining reasons why ESS carries a very high risk of serious complications related to inaccurate surgical manoeuvers and reviewing British a...

rent state of the medical liability insurance system may consider themselves fortunate to call Wisconsin home. Wisconsin is one of only six states deemed stable by the American Medical Association (AMA) in terms of the burden that the cost of malpractice insurance is placing on clinicians. Nineteen states have reached crisis status, according to the AMA, while the remaining 25 are beginning to ...

edical malpractice is in the news, again. The early 2000s have seen the third upheaval in medical liability insurance over the last three decades. States have as always been the first responders, but liability reform has also become a high-profile federal issue. Physicians, their liability insurers, and their allies promote state and federal tort reform to curb lawsuits. Their key goal is a “ca...