This study intended to review the precedents on plastic surgery medical malpractice lawsuits in lower-court trials, classify the reasons of 'limitation of liability' by type, and suggest a standard in the acknowledgement of limitation of liability ratio. The 30 lower-court's rulings on the cases bearing the medical negligence of the defendants acknowledged the liability ratio of the defendants ...

This paper takes it as a premise that a distinction between matters of fact and of law is important in the causal inquiry. But it argues that separating factual and legal causation as different elements of liability is not the best way to implement the fact/law distinction. It is partly a legal question what counts as a cause-in-fact; and certain liabilitylimiting doctrines under the umbrella o...

Liability in data, products, and services related to geographic information systems, spatial data infrastructure, location based services and web mapping services, is complicated by the complexities and uncertainties in liability for information system products and services generally, as well as by legal theory uncertainties surrounding liability for maps. Each application of geospatial technol...

Developments in medical technology and medical science have revolutionised modern medical practice of the past two decades and have created novel ethical and legal dilemmas for medical practitioners. This paper will discuss one of the most contentious legal issues associated with medically indicated withdrawal of life sustaining treatment from incompetent patients, where such discontinuance wil...

a jurisprudential and legal survey on reflection of fairness in the special legal acts siroos shahriyari [1] hamid miri (ph.d.) [2]     abstract with a view to foreign and domestic law and jurisprudence, it is appeared that there are streaks of making attention to the fairness factor behind of confronting some special legal acts such as usury and mortgage contracts, penal and non-liability clau...

although transactions are complicated and of specific variety nowadays, concern of both parties of transactions concerning probability of deservingness of each considerations is so important that all legal schools have thought about some solutions for removing that concern and creating peace of mind for both parties. islamic legal law has not ignored that important issue too, and has offered li...

A thletic trainers, team physicians, physical therapists, coaches, and schools all face potential liability by providing medical coverage at athletic events. This article will focus on potential liability that may arise from high school athletic injuries. Common principles can be found among the laws of each state, but material differences exist in the decisions of the higher courts of each sta...

Here we set out the European product liability regime as it applies to medical devices and examine key cases that indicate how the legislation is likely to be interpreted. Despite the fact that the strict liability regime has been in existence for many years, numerous issues have yet to be resolved and there continues to be a lack of harmonisation between the EU member states. We highlight a nu...

We show that efficient exchange obtains independently of the degree to which a legal system protects the rights of owners. We study a number of different legal rules, including property rules (strong protection), liability rules (any party can take the owner’s asset but must pay a legally-determined compensation), and even rules that protect the owner’s interests very weakly (liability rules wi...