Abstract
In every negligence lawsuit, including a lawsuit based on the medical negligence of a healthcare provider, the injured party must prove the existence of a duty of exercise reasonable care, a breach of the duty to exercise reasonable care, a causal connection between the breach of the duty to exercise reasonable care the in the injury suffered and proof of legally cognizable injury. This chapter overviews each of these requirements.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine |
| Subtitle of host publication | Second Edition |
| Publisher | Elsevier Inc. |
| Pages | 365-369 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780128000557 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780128000342 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 4 2015 |
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ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- General Social Sciences
Keywords
- Breach of duty
- Causation
- Cause in fact
- Duty
- Injury
- Malpractice
- Medical negligence
- Physician-patient relationship
- Proximate cause
- Res ipsa loquitur
- Standard of care
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