standard of care

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standard of care

The duties and responsibilities expected of people by virtue of their status, their relationship with another person, or the situation in which they find themselves.Real estate licensing boards establish standards of care for their members regarding duties of honesty, integrity, disclosure, and professionalism. A property owner may have differing standards of care relative to persons on his or her property, depending on whether those persons are licensees, invitees,or trespassers.

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So, here is the critical question: To what extent if at all do such risk management principles or strategies inform or become part of the malpractice standard of care?

Quandaries and Quagmires: The standard of care vs. risk management

(73) Judge Kean, who presided over the case, ruled that "the standard of care must be based upon attorneys in the same type of practice as [Sommers and Neville] in South Dakota." (74) Thus, Judge Kean granted Sommers's and Neville's motion to strike Lillehaug's testimony.

Lost in the locality labyrinth: a search for the appropriate legal malpractice standard set forth in Hamilton v. Sommers

Brown's main holding concerned the application of the res ipsa loquitor doctrine, but the appellate court discussed the appropriate standard of care to which the amusement park operator should be held:

The Supreme Court of Missouri splashes with precedent in waterslide injury case

The Court held that an expert who opines that a national standard of care applies should not be per se disqualified from offering testimony at trial.

State Supreme Court modified old 'locality rule'

ISSUE: Expert witnesses are often called upon in medical negligence cases to provide testimony as to a defendant-physician's breach of the standard of care, and the WVSMA believes that all expert witness testimony should be fair and accurate.

Regulating expert witness testimony

The company added Multikine is its flagship immunotherapy developed as a first-line standard of care in treating head and neck cancer.

CEL-SCI Corp awarded Ukraine Government approval to commence Phase III clinical trial of Multikine in head and neck cancer

The so-called Aspire study tests TMC435 in combination with standard of care (peg-IFN and ribavarin) in 462 patients with genotype-1 hepatitis C virus who have failed treatment with standard of care alone.

-Medivir unveils positive Phase IIb results for TMC435

THE 30-day comment period out of the way, the Securities and Exchange Commission is now setting to work crafting a study that will ultimately determine the standard of care agents and brokers must use in selling investment products in the future.

Deluge of comment letters shows industry split on fiduciary standard

1)." Several years ago, the CHE Task Force identified the possibility of changes in the standard of care during a disaster and organized a state Adapted Standards of Care (ASC) committee to explore the issues related to planning for changes within our health delivery systems during a disaster.

Scarce resource situations

Standard of care includes whether hospitals make services equally available to everyone.

Give your hospital a full healthcheck; NHS WEBSITE RATES TRUSTS

HCV SPRINT-1 study is a five-arm trial of boceprevir 800 mg plus the standard of care with pegylated interferon alfa 2b (1.5 mcg/kg once a week) plus ribavirin, 800-1400 mg daily, involving 595 patients with HCV-1.

In patients with treatment-naive chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 1 infection, the investigational protease inhibitor boceprevir--made by Schering-Plough Corp (Kenilworth NJ)--produces sustained viral response rates that are nearly twice that seen with the standard of care