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Medical Negligence: Non-Patient and Third Party Claims


ISBN13: 9780754646976
Published: September 2010
Publisher: Routledge
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £130.00



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Healthcare professionals face an increasing threat of litigation from parties whom they have never met in their daily medical practice and who look nothing like the traditional patient.

The so-called ‘non-patient’ may take many forms—for example, a person who is injured or killed by a mentally-ill, physically-disabled or diseased patient; a wrongfully-accused parent in a child neglect/abuse case; or a local authority which is put to the expense of caring for a negligently-treated patient.

This book explores the legal principles and conundrums which arise when determining a healthcare professional’s liability in negligence towards a wide variety of non-patients.

The topic is assuming increasing legal importance and relevance, given the potential for many non-patient claims to give rise to class actions litigation, and in light of the legislative and human rights interventions, and the frequent appellate judicial consideration, which non-patient claims have attracted in recent times.

The aim of the book is to have utility for both legal and medical professionals; for academics and students of comparative medical negligence and tort law; and for law reformers who may be interested in adopting certain features of statutory models elsewhere which pertain to some non-patient claims, such as those based upon ‘Good Samaritan’ conduct.

Important parallels or counterpoints from other common law jurisdictions, in which courts and commentators have grappled with the legal complexities of non-patient claims, are also discussed and critically analyzed.

Subjects:
Personal Injury Law, Medical Law and Bioethics
Contents:
Preface
Part I Setting the Context:
The book: an overview
Establishing negligence in novel non-patient scenarios.

Part II Actual or Potential Negligence Liability for Physical Injuries to Non-Patients:
Injuries to non-patients caused by physically-impaired or mentally-ill patients
Contraction or inheritance of disease by non-patients from patients
'Bad Samaritan' liability: failing to assist non-patients
'Good Samaritan' liability: intervening to assist non-patients.

Part III Actual or Potential negligence Liability for Non-Physical Injuries to Non-Patients:
Pure economic loss claims by 3rd parties associated with the patient
pure psychiatric injury claims by 3rd parties associated with the patient
'Fear-of-the-future' claims by non-patients
Wrongfully-accused 3rd parties in neglect or abuse cases
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.