Healthcare professionals in South Africa (SA) are facing challenging times. As the clinical negligence claims environment in SA deteriorates, the impact is being felt by healthcare professionals, but also by the wider public owing to the strain that costs place on the public purse. The authors look at the current claims environment, and explain why a debate about reform is so important.

The law of products liability in tort is designed to maintain a reasonable balance between the inevitable social costs and the benefits of innovative product technologies. Technological development must be supported not only for the best interests of the public but also the side effect namely product defect into one of the following: (1) manufacturing defect; failures to correctly implement saf...

A number of case histories have reported an association between the presence of misidentification syndromes and violent behavior. If patients with such delusions are truly more likely to perpetrate violent acts, treating mental health professionals could potentially be considered liable for not warning or protecting potential victims. However, the purported association between violence and misi...

Currently, search engines suffer from conceptual problems despite the application of refi ned techniques. The fundamental problem lies in the absence of classical information processing concepts in search engine processing. The limitation of search engines in phrase processing is highlighted in this paper. The results of search engine retrievals are compared with propriety database search resul...

In January of 1979, a railroad tank car containing the chemical acrylonitrile started leaking at a rail yard in south suburban Chicago. The chemical was manufactured by American Cyanamid Co (Cyanamid) in Louisiana. Cyanamid had leased the tank car, filled it with acrylonitrile, and delivered it to the Missouri Pacific Railroad for transport to the Chicago suburbs. The leak occurred while the ca...

ALEXANDRA LOSTUN1, ARTHUR KERESZTESI1, RAZVAN HAINAROSIE2,3*, GABRIEL LOSTUN4 1 University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Department of Forensic Medicine,38 Gheorghe Marinescu Str., 540142, Tirgu Mures, Romania 2 Prof. Dr. D. Hociota Institute of Phonoaudiology and Functional ENT Surgery, 21 Mihail Cioranu Str., 050751, Bucharest, Romania 3 Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 8 Eroii S...