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Physician's Negligence Giving Rise To The Birth Of A Healthy But Unplanned Child: A Summary Of Damages Recoverable By The Parents, Kenneth F. Hardt
Physician's Negligence Giving Rise To The Birth Of A Healthy But Unplanned Child: A Summary Of Damages Recoverable By The Parents, Kenneth F. Hardt
University of Richmond Law Review
The decision to undergo a sterilization operation or an abortion is the result of considering many complex emotional and financial factors. The operation may be sought to avoid potential health risks associated with childbirth, or it may be sought to avoid the financial stress a new child will place on the family unit. Regardless of the rationale underlying the decision, the individual will require medical assistance. In some situations, however, this medical assistance is negligently performed, and the result may be the birth of a healthy but unplanned child.
Auditors' Liability - Adoption Of A Reasonable Foreseeability Standard, Laurence E. Skinner
Auditors' Liability - Adoption Of A Reasonable Foreseeability Standard, Laurence E. Skinner
University of Richmond Law Review
The common law liability of auditors to third party users of negligently audited financial statements is currently in a state of transition. For years, on the basis of Ultramares Corp. v. Touche, auditors successfully raised a lack of privity of contract with the plaintiff as a defense in negligence actions. Starting in the late 1960's, however, courts began to abandon the privity defense in favor of liability limited to actually foreseen third parties or foreseeable classes of financial statement users. Two recent cases manifesting the trend toward expanded auditors' liability held for the first time that negligent auditors can be …