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Articles 121 - 146 of 146
Full-Text Articles in Torts
Motivation And Tort Law: Acting For Economic Gain As A Suspect Motive, Martin A. Kotler
Motivation And Tort Law: Acting For Economic Gain As A Suspect Motive, Martin A. Kotler
Vanderbilt Law Review
The asserted unimportance of the defendant's motive underlying acts giving rise to tort liability is part of the conventional wisdom of most writers of basic tort texts.' Frequently, the irrelevance of the defendant's motivation is considered so obvious that many writers fail to discuss it at all, or discuss it only in the limited context of punitive damages. Virtually all of the literature that considers the significance of motive in tort law deals with either altruism, primarily in the rescue context, or spite, primarily in the punitive damages context. However,little, if any, of the literature considers the legal treatment of …
A Proposal To Cap Tort Liability: Avoiding The Pitfalls Of Heightened Rationality, Richard S. Kuhl
A Proposal To Cap Tort Liability: Avoiding The Pitfalls Of Heightened Rationality, Richard S. Kuhl
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
This Note sets forth a model statute that limits high damage awards, yet will withstand the rigors of judicial scrutiny. After presenting a brief background of the medical malpractice crisis in Part I, Part II outlines the standards of equal protection review that the courts are presently using. The Note then focuses on the constitutional challenges to caps on medical malpractice liability in Part III. Part IV discusses the values and interests that were found to be dispositive in the courts' decisions. Finally, after analyzing the criteria that must be met to ensure that a legislative limitation will survive judicial …
Medical Maloccurrence Insurance: A First Party No-Fault Insurance Proposal For Resolving The Medical Malpractice Insurance Controversy, Larry M. Pollack
Medical Maloccurrence Insurance: A First Party No-Fault Insurance Proposal For Resolving The Medical Malpractice Insurance Controversy, Larry M. Pollack
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Part I of this Note examines the broad, underlying themes of tort theory and argues that, in general, the tort system's primary responsibility should be compensation, rather than deterrence of risk taking. In so far as the production of goods and services causes injury, such losses should be shared and spread as widely and proportionately as possible. Part II discusses the history and nature of the medical malpractice insurance crisis. Part III evaluates the numerous systemic solutions suggested by various commentators. Finally, Part IV proposes a new solution: first party, no-fault medical maloccurrence insurance (MMI).
Medical Malpractice By Emergency Physicians And Potential Hospital Liability, Keith B. Hunter
Medical Malpractice By Emergency Physicians And Potential Hospital Liability, Keith B. Hunter
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Agreements Changing The Forum For Resolving Malpractice Claims, James A. Henderson Jr.
Agreements Changing The Forum For Resolving Malpractice Claims, James A. Henderson Jr.
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Medical Malpractice: A Time For More Talk And Less Rhetoric, Robert M. Ackerman
Medical Malpractice: A Time For More Talk And Less Rhetoric, Robert M. Ackerman
Law Faculty Research Publications
No abstract provided.
New York's Medical Malpractice Insurance Crises--A New Direction For Reform, Mark Monaco
New York's Medical Malpractice Insurance Crises--A New Direction For Reform, Mark Monaco
Fordham Urban Law Journal
Beginning in the early 1970's, insurance companies nationwide began dropping out of the medical malpractice market. Medical malpractice had become an unprofitable field for investment partly because of a sharp and continuing increase both in the number of malpractice suits being brought against health-care providers and in the size of damage awards and settlements in medical malpractice cases. In response to increasing pressure from the medical profession and the insurance industry, many states in the mid-1970's began to experiment with ways of limiting the number of claims being entered against physicians and hospitals, and reducing the size of malpractice awards …
Tort Liability Of Institutional Review Boards, Linda Bordas
Tort Liability Of Institutional Review Boards, Linda Bordas
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Pain And Profit: The Politics Of Malpractice, Ruth L. Gokel
Pain And Profit: The Politics Of Malpractice, Ruth L. Gokel
Florida State University Law Review
By Sylvia Law and Steven Polan. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers. 1978. Pp xiv, 305. $12.95.
The Florida Medical Malpractice Act Of 1975, Theresa Hooks
The Florida Medical Malpractice Act Of 1975, Theresa Hooks
Florida State University Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Hospital-Physician Relationship: Hospital Responsibiity For Malpractice Of Physicians, Joel D. Cunningham
The Hospital-Physician Relationship: Hospital Responsibiity For Malpractice Of Physicians, Joel D. Cunningham
Washington Law Review
Since 1957 the courts in most states have moved rapidly toward imposing vicarious liability on a hospital for the torts of employee-physicians. In 1965 the Illinois Supreme Court held that a hospital could be liable for the malpractice of a nonemployee-physician. This comment attempts to describe these trends, to delineate the new rules the courts are applying and to determine the rationale for adopting these new rules. The comment assumes the patient has established that the physician committed malpractice; the only issue addressed is whether the patient can recover from the hospital for his or her injuries. The scope is …
Malicious Prosecution Suits As Counterbalance To Medical Malpractice Suits, Allen P. Adler
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.
Contributory Negligence In Medical Malpractice, Diane Shelby
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.
Standard Of Care For Medical Practitioners--Abandonment Of The Locality Rule, Katherine Randall Bowden
Standard Of Care For Medical Practitioners--Abandonment Of The Locality Rule, Katherine Randall Bowden
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Hospital Nurses And Tort Liability, Gabrielle G. Kinkela, Robert V. Kinkela
Hospital Nurses And Tort Liability, Gabrielle G. Kinkela, Robert V. Kinkela
Cleveland State Law Review
What factors have influenced the courts in the development of their current attitude toward hospitals? Are the emerging concepts reasonable, or are they indicia of a pendulum swinging too far in the direction of the patient? What are the consequences for the nurse? These are the questions to which the ensuing treatment of one aspect of tort liability is addressed.
Statutes Of Limitations In Legal Malpractice, Norman T. Baxter
Statutes Of Limitations In Legal Malpractice, Norman T. Baxter
Cleveland State Law Review
It becomes apparent from an analysis of cases and law that many jurisdictions, when using the term malpractice, limit the term strictly to physicians and surgeons. It is not so much the fact that legal malpractice is excluded from the term malpractice but rather that it is never even mentioned. Since legal malpractice appears to be a matter of state definition it would seem that perhaps the best approach to understanding legal malpractice would be to examine (as typical) the statutes of three of our leading states, to see what is the present status of their laws on the subject.
Physician's Liability For Torts Of Hospital Employees, Irene E. Svete
Physician's Liability For Torts Of Hospital Employees, Irene E. Svete
Cleveland State Law Review
Why should a treating physician be held liable for any lack of treatment on the part of the hospital employees? On what basis can such a conclusion be reached? An agency relationship was considered as existing between the parties, making the physician liable for the actions of the hospital employees. He was the "Captain of the Ship," the one in control of the patient's treatment and care. Only he was answerable for resulting injury and death from lack of said treatment. The "Captain" will be held liable for others' negligence where the acts performed by them are under conditions where …
Res Ipsa Loquitur In Medical Malpractice, Rudolf F. Binder
Res Ipsa Loquitur In Medical Malpractice, Rudolf F. Binder
Cleveland State Law Review
The "Cloak of Protection encompassing the physician in the practice of his profession" is no longer to be taken for granted. Recent decisions in Alaska, California, Louisiana, Oregon, and Wisconsin have swept aside the traditional limitations in the use of the res ipsa loquitur doctrine. They impose all but strict liability upon the medical profession for mistakes occurring during treatment or surgery.
Torts--Effect Of A Release Of An Original Tort Feasor Upon The Malpractice Of Attending Physician, Louis S. Southworth Ii
Torts--Effect Of A Release Of An Original Tort Feasor Upon The Malpractice Of Attending Physician, Louis S. Southworth Ii
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
How To Handle An Anesthesia Injury Case, Albert Averbach
How To Handle An Anesthesia Injury Case, Albert Averbach
Cleveland State Law Review
The criteria of competence of the trial lawyer handling a medical malpractice case is, does he have at least as much if not more knowledge of the practice and procedure involved in the case than the defendant physician. In no place is this more true than in the field of anesthesiology. This is not, of course, to suggest that the attorney can compete with the physician in practical experience. But, it is to propose that many valid anesthesia malpractice cases result in nonsuits and that plaintiff's verdicts which are overturned on appeal are almost invariably lost due to insufficient evidence, …
Medical Malpractice In Kentucky, Marvin Henderson
Medical Malpractice In Kentucky, Marvin Henderson
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Statute Of Limitations In Malpractice Actions, Ernest A. Cieslinski
Statute Of Limitations In Malpractice Actions, Ernest A. Cieslinski
Cleveland State Law Review
The ill-treated patient has sought redress for medical malpractice by actions that sound in tort, in contract, or in fraud. As with other actions, the underlying policy of "peace and repose" of all statutes of limitations dictates that these actions be timely. In Ohio, for example, the time limit for an action for malpractice is one year.
Defense Against Res Ipsa In Medical Malpractice, Howard M. Rossen
Defense Against Res Ipsa In Medical Malpractice, Howard M. Rossen
Cleveland State Law Review
In a res ipsa loquitur case the injured party is deemed in no position to explain the cause, while the party charged may begin a position to show himself free from negligence. If the plaintiff has equal or superior means of information, the doctrine does not apply. The question is really one of duty on the part of the defendant. Res ipsa loquitur leads only to a possible (not mandatory) inference that the defendant has not complied with his duty to use skill and care, and is not in itself proof that he was under a specific duty. This question …
Malpractice Used As A Hospital Defense, Carl H. Miller
Malpractice Used As A Hospital Defense, Carl H. Miller
Cleveland State Law Review
Hospital immunity in negligence and other torts of agents and employees is disappearing steadily. The course of decisions in many states has been consistently in the direction of elimination of "charitable" immunity of hospitals. Seeking another line of defense, hospital administrators have re-examined the parties generally involved in a medical negligence action-patient, physician and hospital. Hospital administrators realized quickly that in order to remain free from general negligence liability, the main onus of tort responsibility would have to be shifted to the physician (or even the nurse) whenever and wherever possible.
Torts - Obstruction Of A Civil Action - Coercion By A Medical Association To Preclude Availability Of Expert Testimony In A Medical Malpractice Action, William Y. Webb
Torts - Obstruction Of A Civil Action - Coercion By A Medical Association To Preclude Availability Of Expert Testimony In A Medical Malpractice Action, William Y. Webb
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff approached nine physicians in an attempt to secure an expert witness for a medical malpractice action. All nine refused, allegedly as a result of threats by the county medical association to expel them and cause a cancellation of their malpractice liability insurance if they testified. The association's actions stemmed from a finding by its "malpractice committee" that the malpractice defendant had not been negligent. Plaintiff then brought this action against the association to recover compensatory and punitive damages for obstruction of a civil action. On appeal from an order granting a motion for nonsuit, held, affirmed. No cause …
Torts--Liability Of A Tort-Feasor For The Aggravated Injuries Resulting From A Physician's Negligent Treatment Of The Original Injury, James C. Brock
Torts--Liability Of A Tort-Feasor For The Aggravated Injuries Resulting From A Physician's Negligent Treatment Of The Original Injury, James C. Brock
Kentucky Law Journal
No abstract provided.