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