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Malicious Prosecution Suits As Counterbalance To Medical Malpractice Suits, Allen P. Adler Jan 1972

Malicious Prosecution Suits As Counterbalance To Medical Malpractice Suits, Allen P. Adler

Cleveland State Law Review

A few years ago medical malpractice suits were something of a rarity in the United States. They now appear to be a major national problem. The magnitude of this ever increasing problem can be illustrated by the fact that a Senate subcommittee, chaired by Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, has investigated the increase in malpractice litigation and that President Nixon has ordered the establishment of a Commission on Medical Malpractice, under the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, to research the problem and report a possible solution by March 1, 1972.


Damages For Wrongful Birth, Joyce E. Barrett Jan 1972

Damages For Wrongful Birth, Joyce E. Barrett

Cleveland State Law Review

While recovery of damages for wrongful death was sanctioned in England as early as 1846 and is now available by statute in every state, the law has been loathe to afford a remedy for wrongful birth. Plaintiffs who have attempted to cope with the problem of people- pollution by various birth control methods, only to have their ecolog- ical efforts stymied by the negligence of a physician performing a sterilization operation or a pharmacist dispensing birth control pills, have been denied a remedy for what, in this writer's view, is the "wrongful birth" of the resulting child. This paper will …


Contributory Negligence In Medical Malpractice, Diane Shelby Jan 1972

Contributory Negligence In Medical Malpractice, Diane Shelby

Cleveland State Law Review

The best and most complete defense to a charge of malpractice is the allegation and proof of the absence of negligence. It is also the most often used defense. Of the less popular defenses, contributory negligence on the part of the patient is probably the least attractive and the most difficult to maintain, even though it has been held to be a complete bar to recovery in several cases difficult to categorize.


Hospital Liability: Implications Of Recent Physician's Assistant Statutes, Daniel W. Coyne Jan 1972

Hospital Liability: Implications Of Recent Physician's Assistant Statutes, Daniel W. Coyne

Cleveland State Law Review

New methods must be devised to increase the efficient use of the available supply of physicians. "Among the innovations being tried with physicians is the development of new disciplines involving assistants to physicians." Increasing utilization of returning medics from the armed forces is being undertaken to help relieve the civilian manpower shortage. The legal implications of these developments range from problems of licensure to considerations of vicarious liability for an assistant's negligence (malpractice) or for the negligence of the assistant's supervising physician. It is with a species of this latter problem that this paper will be concerned. But one ought …


Visitors' Refusal To Leave Premises, Joseph Gibson Jan 1972

Visitors' Refusal To Leave Premises, Joseph Gibson

Cleveland State Law Review

Many factors have been blamed for this new, brazen attitude of remaining on another's property. Some fault the Supreme Court's rulings in Brown v. Louisiana, where court conviction of sit-in demonstrators at a public library, was reversed by holding that the conviction was a violation of the fourteenth amendment rights, and Cox v. Louisiana' where the Court decided that a state statute which regulated picketing was improper because of the discretion which it gave to local officials. Others lay the blame on a more permissive society which is breeding contempt for the power structure. The most logical explanation is a …


Occupational Safety And Health Act Of 1970, Lee Hornberger Jan 1972

Occupational Safety And Health Act Of 1970, Lee Hornberger

Cleveland State Law Review

More than fourteen thousand workers died as a result of occupationally related accidents in 1970. This is more than died in Vietnam during the same period. During the 1960's, more than 150,000 Americans died under similar conditions. This was in spite of occupational safety and health legislation in most of the states. Federal safety legislation in limited areas had failed to stem the fatal tide in even those limited areas. It had become apparent that unless a new comprehensive approach was used the worksite would become even more deadly than the battlefield. The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 …