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“Usually, [these cases] are under a very narrow legal theory and individual bank employees are not put in the mixer. And punitive damages aren’t a question, nor is tort liability for negligence,” he said. “Usually, disputes with bank customers are a creature of contract, as opposed...
I advise nurses not to discontinue orders without a physician signature. Perhaps the hospital administrators who assigned this nurse to "clean up" Kardexes forgot to add "and get the ordering provider to enter a discontinuation order." SUGGESTED for you 133 Any views expressed above are the auth...
they could be sued for negligence and damages could be awarded to the extent that they made an existing medical emergency worse.Enter The Good Samaritan Protection Act.2 Legislators specifically designed this bill to provide partial immunity from liability to those providing emergency assistance, excep...
although these types of plans will guarantee minimal medical prices, however, they are not excellent health insurance if a catastrophic event should happen in your life. You end up in the hospital within a certain period. Don’t be fooled; know the difference between the variety of types of ...
Texas adheres to a civil mandate known as modified comparative negligence. Under such regulations, a plaintiff is entitled to receive compensation if they are found 50 percent or less to blame. If they are ruled 51 percent or more, they are not entitled to ...
At the hospital or practice plan level, the system for ensuring continuing competence iscredentialing, a process that determines whether a physician has admitting privileges to the hospital (or practice in a group) for their patients. Privileges are conferred annually or biannually by a committee of...
be a threat to him/herself or others. EMTALA's medical screening and stabilization requirements do not guarantee a proper diagnosis or provide a federal remedy for misdiagnosis or medical negligence. Here, the plaintiff informed medical personnel at the hospital of his mental state, wa...
There's the $5.6 million settlement in a Massachusetts General Hospital case where a resident and attending missed a cervical fracture of a patient's spine. Or the Kansas City case, still in litigation, where an emphysema patient died when her portable oxygen supply ran out and the resident ...