Sentences with phrase «treat professional negligence»

This decision does not require that a college treat professional negligence as equivalent to professional misconduct.

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If a doctor, nurse or other healthcare professional treating you in the hospital failed to use the equipment properly, causing you to be severely injured, they can be held liable for medical negligence.
As a society, we have traditionally looked to our healthcare professionals to diagnose and treat our ailments, from minor aches and pains to major, life - threatening conditions The existence of lawyers who specialise in clinical negligence, from both a claimant and defendant perspective, is a reminder of the industry that has grown up around litigation in this area.
The court of appeals held that the husband stated a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress and professional negligence because of the acts specifically directed toward the husband, i.e., treating the husband in the confines of the office and then undermining that treatment outside the therapy session.
If you believe you've been treated negligently by a professional advisor and lost out financially as a result, you may be able to make a claim for professional negligence.
On its face, the HPRB's decision defines a «matter» which must be investigated and disposed of by an inquiry committee expansively enough to capture not only isolated incidents of negligence or incompetent provision of professional services, but also issues such as overbilling that many professional regulatory bodies treat as outside their jurisdiction.
If you or a loved one has had a stroke that was not diagnosed and treated in a timely manner due to the negligence of the health care professionals who should have caught the symptoms, you may be able to claim compensation.
``... where the negligence consists in the very failure by the professional defendant to advise the lay claimant of that consequence, the proposition that the claimant should nonetheless be treated as having knowledge of that consequence for limitation purposes (when his very complaint is that he should have been but was not told it by the defendant) is almost absurd.
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