Soon after the rescue operation ended, hope gave way to anger as most relatives began to question whether their loved ones died as the result of
corporate negligence.
Courts that refuse to hold MCOs liable for
corporate negligence would probably also refuse to apply that theory to firms selling medical-tourism packages.
When a hospital's cost containment efforts significantly and adversely affect the standard and quality of patient care, the hospital could be subject to increased litigation under the
corporate negligence doctrine for harm shown to have proximately resulted.
The proposed laws will enable company directors to be prosecuted for manslaughter due to
corporate negligence.
Mr Opik, co-chairman of the All Party Group on Recreation and Adventure, who almost lost his life in a paragliding accident in 1998, said individual responsibility had to be balanced against accusations of
corporate negligence.
While extreme cases of
corporate negligence can have terrible consequences and should be treated accordingly, the decision reflects the increasing pressure on all companies, and their directors, to be legally accountable for their mistakes--for carelessness as well as for deliberate fraud.
It was only from 1900 that some redress for victims of serious
corporate negligence was introduced.
But while filing some paperwork connected with a housing case, she becomes interested in the detail, and is soon on her way to investigating and uncovering a shocking case of
corporate negligence - in between bringing up her three kids and finding new romance.
The concurring judge could not agree that the plaintiff's claim for
corporate negligence was barred in its entirety because of the application of the doctrine of collateral estoppel.
First, a PO can be held liable for the negligent acts of its physicians under such theories as
corporate negligence, respondeat superior, and ostensible agency.
Hospitals are now likely to be named as defendants in every suit brought against a physician, and more suits will allege
corporate negligence in the oversight of medical treatment delivery.
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