| Malpractice Liability of Sports Medical Care Providers |
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| Children and young adults are playing a large variety of sports in ever-increasing numbers. As the number of participants increases, so does the occurrence of sports-related injuries and deaths resulting in more medical malpractice actions against team physicians and sports trainers. More... |
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| How to Prepare for A Deposition as a Medical Malpractice Plaintiff |
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| How to Prepare for a Deposition as a Medical Malpractice Plaintiff More... |
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| Negligence Versus Assault and Battery |
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| A patient is injured by a physician's conduct. In making a claim for recovery of damages against the physician, is the proper action based in negligence or in the intentional tort of assault and battery? More... |
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| Failure to Prevent Suicide |
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| A physician, psychiatrist, or psychologist is treating a patient, and during the treatment period, the patient unfortunately takes his own life. The family members are anguished and angry, and they claim that the doctor was negligent in failing to take the proper steps to prevent the tragic event. The question of whether or not they will prevail in a medical malpractice action depends on the specific facts of the case, focusing on the reasonableness of the treatment in light of the patient's history. More... |
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| Obtaining Substance Abuse Records in Medical Malpractice Cases |
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| If you are a plaintiff in a medical malpractice action, you might be seeking information on the issue of whether or not the physician who treated you had a substance abuse problem that might have contributed to his or her claimed negligence. If you are a physician who is the object of a medical malpractice action, you might be looking for information on whether the patient's injury was the result of his or her own drug problem. Whatever, the reason, it is not uncommon for one or both parties to try to obtain substance abuse records. More... |
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