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Prescription Drug Design Liability Under The Proposed Restatement (Third) Of Torts: A Reporter's Perspective, James A. Henderson Jr. Jan 1996

Prescription Drug Design Liability Under The Proposed Restatement (Third) Of Torts: A Reporter's Perspective, James A. Henderson Jr.

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Restatement (Second) Of Torts Section 324a: An Innovative Theory Of Recovery For Patients Injured Through Use Or Misuse Of Health Care Information Services, 14 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 73 (1995), Lisa L. Dahm Jan 1995

Restatement (Second) Of Torts Section 324a: An Innovative Theory Of Recovery For Patients Injured Through Use Or Misuse Of Health Care Information Services, 14 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 73 (1995), Lisa L. Dahm

UIC John Marshall Journal of Information Technology & Privacy Law

The author in this comment discusses how developments in information technology and widespread utilization of technology and software in the patient care context raise the issue of clinical liability for health care information systems vendors. The comment discusses a theory of recovery of tort damages for the negligence of health care information systems vendors under section 324A of the Restatement (Second) of Torts. Section 324A provides in essence that "one who undertakes ... for consideration, to render services to another which he should recognize as necessary for the protection of a third person ... is subject to liability to the …


Obligations Of Hiv-Infected Health Professionals To Inform Patients Of Their Serological Status: Evolving Theories Of Liability, 27 J. Marshall L. Rev. 317 (1994), Theodore R. Leblang Jan 1995

Obligations Of Hiv-Infected Health Professionals To Inform Patients Of Their Serological Status: Evolving Theories Of Liability, 27 J. Marshall L. Rev. 317 (1994), Theodore R. Leblang

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Perinatal Transmission Of Hiv: Cause For The Resurrection Of Wrongful Life, 27 J. Marshall L. Rev. 393 (1994), John F. Hernandez Jan 1995

Perinatal Transmission Of Hiv: Cause For The Resurrection Of Wrongful Life, 27 J. Marshall L. Rev. 393 (1994), John F. Hernandez

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Clark V. Southview Hospital: Ohio Follows The Nationwide Trend Of Using Agency By Estoppel To Impose Strict Liability On Hospitals , Colleen Moran Jan 1995

Clark V. Southview Hospital: Ohio Follows The Nationwide Trend Of Using Agency By Estoppel To Impose Strict Liability On Hospitals , Colleen Moran

Journal of Law and Health

In Clark, the Ohio Supreme Court set forth a test a plaintiff must meet in order to hold a hospital vicariously liable under the doctrine of agency by estoppel. The court based its test on numerous such decisions from jurisdictions across the country. However, the legal soundness of Clark and the decisions on which it relied is questionable, as many of these jurisdictions misapplied the legal doctrines underlying agency by estoppel theory. This article analyzes the legal doctrines on which agency by estoppel is based, how this theory of vicarious liability has evolved in Ohio, and how state courts across …


Doctors, Nurses And Superseding Cause: The Demise Of The Last In Time Defense, Charles Lattanzi Jan 1995

Doctors, Nurses And Superseding Cause: The Demise Of The Last In Time Defense, Charles Lattanzi

Journal of Law and Health

The question which naturally arises is whether the determination of superseding cause in this context is a question for the jury. Ohio case law has long held, as a matter of law, that the aggravation of an injury by the subsequent malpractice of a physician never breaks the chain of causation. Assuming that the original tortfeaser was negligent and that his actions caused the original injury, the only question left for the jury is whether the plaintiff herself exercised reasonable care in seeking treatment by a qualified physician. This rule was affirmed and given its common appellation, "the subsequent tortfeasor …


Informed Consent Liability In A "Material Information" Jurisdiction: What Does The Future Portend?, William J. Mcnichols Jan 1995

Informed Consent Liability In A "Material Information" Jurisdiction: What Does The Future Portend?, William J. Mcnichols

Oklahoma Law Review

No abstract provided.


Negligence: Strubhart V. Perry Memorial Hospital: Taming The Monster Of Corporate Negligence Or Creating An Unpredictable Form Of Hospital Liability?, Jeannie Pinkston Jan 1995

Negligence: Strubhart V. Perry Memorial Hospital: Taming The Monster Of Corporate Negligence Or Creating An Unpredictable Form Of Hospital Liability?, Jeannie Pinkston

Oklahoma Law Review

No abstract provided.


Universal Health Care And The Continued Reliance On Custom In Determining Medical Malpractice, James A. Henderson Jr., John A. Siliciano Sep 1994

Universal Health Care And The Continued Reliance On Custom In Determining Medical Malpractice, James A. Henderson Jr., John A. Siliciano

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


A World That Won't Stand Still: Enterprise Liability By Private Contract, William M. Sage, James M. Jorling Jul 1994

A World That Won't Stand Still: Enterprise Liability By Private Contract, William M. Sage, James M. Jorling

Faculty Scholarship

The purpose of this article is to help health care providers and insurers create such an approach by explaining the benefits and risks of voluntarily reassigning liability for medical injury along an enterprise liability model, and by outlining the legal and contractual elements that are required to do so successfully.


Liability For 'Knowing' Transmission Of Hiv: The Evolution Of A Duty To Disclose, Jody B. Gabel Jan 1994

Liability For 'Knowing' Transmission Of Hiv: The Evolution Of A Duty To Disclose, Jody B. Gabel

Florida State University Law Review

No abstract provided.


A New Predicament For Physicians: The Concept Of Medical Futility, The Physician's Obligation To Render Inappropriate Treatment, And The Interplay Of The Medical Standard Of Care, Eric M. Levine Jan 1994

A New Predicament For Physicians: The Concept Of Medical Futility, The Physician's Obligation To Render Inappropriate Treatment, And The Interplay Of The Medical Standard Of Care, Eric M. Levine

Journal of Law and Health

Part II of this article discusses the concept of futility and reviews various proposed approaches to defining "futility". This article then shows how personal value judgments play an integral part in determining futility under virtually all of these approaches. Part II concludes that a decision that treatment is futile should not be based on the individual values of only the patient or physician under the shared decisionmaking model of the physician-patient relationship. Part III tackles the issue whether a physician must offer or continue treatment deemed "medically and ethically inappropriate." Part III first reviews common law doctrines governing the physician-patient …


Universal Health Care And The Continued Reliance On Custom In Determining Medical Malpractice, James A. Henderson Jr., John A. Siliciano Jan 1994

Universal Health Care And The Continued Reliance On Custom In Determining Medical Malpractice, James A. Henderson Jr., John A. Siliciano

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Scared To Death: A Cause Of Action For Aids Phobia, Harris J. Zakarin Jan 1993

Scared To Death: A Cause Of Action For Aids Phobia, Harris J. Zakarin

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Historical Continuity Of Punitive Damages Awards: Reforming The Tort Reformers, Michael Rustad, Thomas Koenig Jan 1993

The Historical Continuity Of Punitive Damages Awards: Reforming The Tort Reformers, Michael Rustad, Thomas Koenig

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.


Rethinking Wrongful Life: Bridging The Boundary Between Tort And Family Law, Philip G. Peters Jr. Jan 1993

Rethinking Wrongful Life: Bridging The Boundary Between Tort And Family Law, Philip G. Peters Jr.

Faculty Publications

Traditional tort law embraces an unduly narrow notion of corrective justice that fails to resolve wrongful life disputes satisfactorily. The unique circumstances associated with the creation of a new life bring into play another, broader paradigm of responsibility: one that resembles family law more than tort. From this perspective, children whose birth can be attributed to tortious conduct have a strong moral claim for supplemental child support whenever a tortfeasor's interference with the pro- creative rights of the parents foreseeably results in the birth of a child and that child's parents cannot provide adequate support. In such an instance, the …


Managed Care, Utilization Review, And Financial Risk Shifting: Compensating Patients For Health Care Cost Containment Injuries, Vernellia R. Randall Jan 1993

Managed Care, Utilization Review, And Financial Risk Shifting: Compensating Patients For Health Care Cost Containment Injuries, Vernellia R. Randall

Seattle University Law Review

This Article examines current tort remedies for personal injury claims and explores the problems that arise when these remedies are applied to physicians' actions that are directed by third-party payers. Part II of this Article explores the organization and historical development of managed health care products. Part III considers the past and present uses of the utilization review process and financial risk shifting. Part IV explores the applicability of traditional theories of tort liability to third-party payers, including direct liability of third-party payers who market managed care products. Part V considers the barriers that ERISA presents to compensating patients for …


The Historical Continuity Of Punitive Damages Awards: Reforming The Tort Reformers, Michael Rustad, Thomas Koenig Jan 1993

The Historical Continuity Of Punitive Damages Awards: Reforming The Tort Reformers, Michael Rustad, Thomas Koenig

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.


Galileo's Retort: Peter Huber's Junk Scholarship, Kenneth J. Cheesbro Jan 1993

Galileo's Retort: Peter Huber's Junk Scholarship, Kenneth J. Cheesbro

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.


Galileo's Retort: Peter Huber's Junk Scholarship, Kenneth J. Cheesbro Jan 1993

Galileo's Retort: Peter Huber's Junk Scholarship, Kenneth J. Cheesbro

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.


Cigarette Warnings: The Perils Of The Cipollone Decision, W. Kip Viscusi Jan 1993

Cigarette Warnings: The Perils Of The Cipollone Decision, W. Kip Viscusi

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

In Cipollone v Liggett Group, Inc., a splintered Court concluded that cigarette smokers who are injured through their consumption of tobacco may bring some state law tort claims against the manufacturers of the cigarettes. Other claims, however, are preempted by federal legislation requiring cigarette packages and advertising to bear warning labels, the specific wording of which is dictated by statute. After a detailed examina- tion of the economics of hazard warning systems, Professor Viscusi argues that the most important economic issues in the Cipollone case were cor- rectly resolved in Justice Stevens'plurality opinion, which contained little overt economic reasoning. The …


Aids Vaccine Manufacturers V. Tort Regime: The Need For Alternatives, Kellen F. Cloney Mar 1992

Aids Vaccine Manufacturers V. Tort Regime: The Need For Alternatives, Kellen F. Cloney

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Pharmaceutical Product Liability May Be Hazardous To Your Health: A No-Fault Alternative To Concurrent Regulation, Gregory C. Jackson Jan 1992

Pharmaceutical Product Liability May Be Hazardous To Your Health: A No-Fault Alternative To Concurrent Regulation, Gregory C. Jackson

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.


Health Care Workers With Aids: Duties, Rights, And Potential Tort Liability, Gary I. Strausberg, Randal D. Getz Jan 1992

Health Care Workers With Aids: Duties, Rights, And Potential Tort Liability, Gary I. Strausberg, Randal D. Getz

University of Baltimore Law Review

No abstract provided.


Blood Bank And Blood Products Manufacturer Liability In Transfusion-Related Aids Cases, Dana J. Finberg Jan 1992

Blood Bank And Blood Products Manufacturer Liability In Transfusion-Related Aids Cases, Dana J. Finberg

University of Richmond Law Review

Can a blood bank or a blood products manufacturer be held liable if a patient contracts AIDS through a transfusion of blood or a blood product? And, if so, should the bank or manufacturer be held liable? As of February 1989, approximately 200 cases touching on this issue were pending in the United States.


Torts—Product Liability—Arkansas Adopts Comment K As An Affirmative Defense In Prescription Drug Actions. West V. Searle & Co., 305 Ark. 33, 806 S.W.2d 608 (1991)., Ian Birkett Jan 1992

Torts—Product Liability—Arkansas Adopts Comment K As An Affirmative Defense In Prescription Drug Actions. West V. Searle & Co., 305 Ark. 33, 806 S.W.2d 608 (1991)., Ian Birkett

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

No abstract provided.


Wealth, Equity, And The Unitary Medical Malpractice Standard, John A. Siliciano Apr 1991

Wealth, Equity, And The Unitary Medical Malpractice Standard, John A. Siliciano

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


At What Cost Will The Court Impose A Duty To Preserve The Life A Child, David S. Lockemeyer Jan 1991

At What Cost Will The Court Impose A Duty To Preserve The Life A Child, David S. Lockemeyer

Cleveland State Law Review

The purpose of this Note is to explore the issues surrounding parental consent for a surgical invasion of one child to save the life of a sibling. This Note focuses on the courts role in permitting organ transplantation. In addition, it will discuss the new developments in medical science regarding living donors and the concept of transplantation of regenerative organs and the possible impact on the court. Next, this Note analyzes the elements of duty to rescue, best interest and substituted judgment and the court's use of the various tests to justify invasion of a child's body. This Note examines …


In The Regulation Of Manmade Carcinogens, If Feasibility Analysis Is The Answer, What Is The Question?, Christopher H. Schroeder May 1990

In The Regulation Of Manmade Carcinogens, If Feasibility Analysis Is The Answer, What Is The Question?, Christopher H. Schroeder

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Environmentally Induced Cancer and the Law by Frank B. Cross


University Of Richmond Law Review Jan 1990

University Of Richmond Law Review

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.