PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to inform healthcare providers and healthcare facility leadership about the statutory, administrative, criminal, and tort law implications related to preventable harms from unsafe injection practices. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH Review of legal theory and precedents. FINDINGS The law can address disputes over unsafe injection practices in a variety of wa...

Abortion-specific informed consent laws in many states compel physicians to communicate state-mandated information that is arguably inaccurate, immaterial, and inconsistent with their professional obligations. These face ongoing First Amendment challenges as violations of the constitutional right against compelled speech. This Article argues compelling physician speech also pose significant pro...

In the context of intelligent disclosure of case law, we report on our findings on methods for retrieving relevant case law within the domain of tort law from a repository of 68.000 court verdicts. We apply a thesaurus-based technique to find specific legal situations. It appears that statistical measures of term relevance are not sufficient, but that explicit knowledge about specific formulati...