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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Main Author: Ye. Ye. Vasilyeva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Siberian State Medical University (Tomsk) 2004-09-01
Series:Бюллетень сибирской медицины
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Online Access:https://bulletin.ssmu.ru/jour/article/view/3661
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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.
ISSN:1682-0363
1819-3684