Medical Malpractice in UK Law
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Imitate Others? Not if We Have the Chance: Competitive Differentiation in Medical Malpractice Insurers' Pricing Decisions under Uncertainty
Several perspectives assert that organizations facing uncertainty tend to imitate other organizations' actions. While one might therefore expect to see great homogeneity across fields characterized...
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REVIEWS
P.J. Cooke and D. W. Oughton, The Common Law of Obligations Michael Foley, The Silence of Constitutions H.K. Bevan, Child Law Dieter Giesen, International Medical Malpractice Law Ian Kennedy and An...... ... ability ‘to authorise [without parental consent] a second medical examination’ (p.646) of a child who is the subject of a place of ... 53 Dieter Giesen, International Medical Malpractice Law, with Foreword by Lord Kilbrandon, Dordrecht: Martinus ... ...
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Reviews
Steve Redhead, Unpopular Cultures: The Birth of Law and Popular Culture Paul C. Weiler, Howard H. Hiatt, Joseph P. Newhouse, William G. Johnson, Troyen A. Brennan and Lucian L. Leape, A Measure of ...... ... Brennan and Lucian L. Leape, A Measure of Malpractice: Medical Injury, Malpractice Litigation and Patient ... ...
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7. INJURY AS MELODRAMA
Our legal system has a well-established set of laws and procedures for injured people to seek redress for their injuries. Over the years universalised legal injury narratives have developed. In oth...... ... accidents, workplace incidents, occupier’s liability, medical malpracticeor defective products. However, this paper will demonstrate ... ...
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Overview of recent cases before the European Court of Human Rights (October 2021 – February 2022)
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In this reporting period (October 2021 – February 2022), four cases before the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter: ECtHR) will be presented. 2 The first case is Šaltinytė v. Lithuania (app...... ... had toreview the relevant legal framework in place in case of medical malpractice, taking into accountthe right to private life in Article 8 ... ...
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Medical Regulation: New Politics and Old Power Structures
In the wake of the events at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, the Harold Shipman case and numerous other examples of doctor malpractice assiduously pursued by an attentive media, medical regulation is ...... ... In the wake of the events at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, the Harold Shipman case and numerous other examples of doctor malpractice assiduously pursued by an attentive media, medical regula- tion is now fully politicised. In the context of the raft of policies produced in response ... ...
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Medical Negligence and the Nigerian National Health Insurance Scheme: Civil Liability, No-Fault or a Hybrid Model?
... ... number of medical errors in some Western nations, such as the United Kingdom and the United States, where there have been reports of a ‘malpractice crisis’, 2 2 Jones, Medical Negligence , ibid , at p. 8. there are no systematic records of medical casualties in many sub-Saharan African ... ...
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Books Received
... ... Tom BAKER, The Medical Malpractice Myth , Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2005, £14.50 ... ...
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Books Received
... ... Saxon House, 1978, 287 pp., f8.50. The Economics of Medical Malpractice edited by Simon Rottenberg. American Enterprise ... ...
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Toward a Harmonized Tort Law in Europe? An Economic Perspective
... ... aw, in particular environmental liability, product liability and medical malpractice. In each of these cases, it is possible to analyze what the ... ...
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