Professional Malpractice
This is FindLaw’s collection of Professional Malpractice articles, part of the Litigation and Disputes section of the Corporate Counsel Center. Malpractice law provides the rules and procedures for holding professionals responsible for the harm that results from their carelessness. People depend on doctors, lawyers, accountants, and other experts to perform their jobs prudently. All states provide a means for malpractice victims to pursue recourse, but some jurisdictions place caps on the amount of money a victim can recover. Law articles in this archive are predominantly written by lawyers for a professional audience seeking business solutions to legal issues. Start your free research with FindLaw.
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Professional Malpractice Articles
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Update on Medical Malpractice in Pennsylvania Under the New Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error Act
After much anticipation and debate, the Pennsylvania legislature passed legislation known as Act 13. Shortly thereafter, on March 20, 2002, Governor ...
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Questions and Answers for Medicare Beneficiaries Who Lose Managed Care Coverage
The following is designed to assist you in answering the most commonly asked questions arising from managed care plan terminations and service area reductions. GENERAL QUESTIONSIndividuals affected by a termination should have received notification ...
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Practicing Defensively
In examining pending legal malpractice cases, one is able to identify common areas of claims and suits, and this examination and analysis enables a practitioner to take preventive steps to, hopefully, avoid being the next defendant.Though we ...
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Politics and Your Healthcare
The American public has always wanted quality, affordable healthcare and union families are no exception. Since 1980, a great majority of the healthcare delivery system in the United States has been managed by Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs ...
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Physician Incentive Plan Glossary of Terms
means a payment a physician or entity receives beyond any salary, fee-for-service payments, capitation or returned withhold. Bonuses and other compensation that are not based on referral levels (such as bonuses based solely on quality of care ...
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Physician Assisted Suicide: Is Legal Always Right?
Death is never timely, only inevitable. Although it is one of life's essential features, Americans usually exhaust every effort and pay any price to stay beyond its reach. For some afflicted souls, however, life can be so unbearable that they dream ...
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The Confidentiality of Personal Health Information in the Information Age
With today's technological advances in computerized communications, personal health information and medical records are made available to a large number of health care providers, insurance companies and other third party payors through legitimate ...
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Info Tech Law Alert: Security-Protecting Medical Records in the Age of Digital Technology
Digital technology, which encompasses electronic mail, facsimile, and the Internet, is increasingly becoming the preferred means of maintaining and sharing medical records. The issue of security is of great concern for many industries that use ...
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What to Do If a Relative or Friend Suffers a Closed Head Injury
Two Million Americans suffer closed head injuries annually with 100,000 requiring hospitalization. In automobile wrecks, the force of impact causes the victim's head to strike an object in the car, such as a window, the frame or the windshield. Even ...
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To Release or Not to Release: The Dilemma of the Health Care Professional Concerning the Release of Patient Records
Nearly all health care professionals find themselves in the precarious situation of being hounded by their patients' legal adversaries to release medical records, while worrying about violating physician patient confidentiality. What is one to do in ...
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