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- Title
H.R. 3084: A MORE RATIONAL COMPENSATION SYSTEM FOR MEDICAL MALPRACTICE.
- Authors
MOORE, W. HENSON; HOFF, JOHN S.
- Abstract
The article examines the proposed House Resolution (H.R.) 3084 bill in the U.S. that offers efficient and reasonable compensation for medical malpractice in actual pecuniary losses, without the expense, trauma and delays of litigation. It states that the bill is not a no-fault proposal since it still retains the central principle of a tort law that compensation should be based on faulty behavior and would not provide compensation for all bad outcomes that occur in the course of health care. Despite the shortcomings, H.R. 3084 reportedly provides better alternatives since it does not abandon the salutary principle that compensation for medical injuries should be based on fault and encourage providers to compensate the medically injured quickly, without litigation.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LEGISLATIVE resolutions; COMPENSATION (Law); NO-fault physicians' malpractice insurance; PHYSICIANS' malpractice insurance; LIABILITY insurance; LAW
- Publication
Law & Contemporary Problems, 1986, Vol 49, Issue 2, p117
- ISSN
0023-9186
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1191418