Negligence as a condition of civil liability of health care institutions
In this article a significance of a negligence of health care institutions when bringing them to civil liability has been investigated. A common rule of assignment of responsibility only when guilty has been examined as well as an exclusion of responsibility in case of increased (guiltless) liabilit...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Siberian State Medical University (Tomsk)
2004-09-01
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| Series: | Bûlleten' Sibirskoj Mediciny |
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| Online Access: | https://bulletin.tomsk.ru/jour/article/view/3661 |
| Summary: | In this article a significance of a negligence of health care institutions when bringing them to civil liability has been investigated. A common rule of assignment of responsibility only when guilty has been examined as well as an exclusion of responsibility in case of increased (guiltless) liability. Examples have been given and a legal treatment of situations when a mutual contributory negligence took place (executor’s negligence as well as recipient’s (patient’s) negligence) has been presented. The significance of presumption of innocence in civil law has been revealed. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-0363 1819-3684 |