Wyoming LaW RevieW

Wyoming Law Review

Error Reporting and Injury Compensation: Advancing Patient Safety Through a State Patient Safety Organization

For a number of years, reducing the incidence of medical errors has been a major driver of U.S. health policy. Some states have created voluntary reporting systems to facilitate identification and analysis of medical errors and to support development of patient safety initiatives. In addition, the federal government has passed laws to encourage the development of voluntary reporting initiatives...

Opinions concerning the insanity plea and criminality among mental patients.

Although numerous discourses relating to the insanity plea are to be found in the psychiatric and legal literature, there are but few empirical studies that address even the fundamental issue of its incidence and success rate.! Similarly, to the authors' knowledge, there is but one study concerned with the attitudes of individuals toward the insanity plea; that study was a survey made of lawyer...

TORT LAW—What Happened to Duty in Wyoming? Negligent Supervision of Minors, Loss of a Sibling’s Consortium, Duty to Inspect One’s Premises, and Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress; Hendricks v. Hurley, 184 P.3d 680 (Wyo. 2008)

PROPERTY LAW—Once a Road, Always a Road?: How the Wyoming Supreme Court is Leaving Rural Landowners in Limbo: King v. Board of County Commissioners of Fremont, 244 P.3d 473 (Wyo. 2010)