Professional Malpractice (Vol. 51, Massachusetts Practice Series®)

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Professional Malpractice addresses the complex issues surrounding medical and legal malpractice claims, as well as malpractice claims in other professions. It discusses the legal basis for medical malpractice claims in depth, discusses each stage of a claim and covers topics such as:

Informed consent
Discovery
Consent
Expert testimony
Liability
Duty and standard of care
Causation
Damages
Defenses
The history of legal malpractice
The medical malpractice screening tribunal
Trial issues and verdicts, and attorney's fees
Identifying the client

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Part I. Medical Malpractice
Chapter
1. Historical Background
2. Legal Grounds for Malpractice Claims
3. Informed Consent
4. Causation
5. The Medical Malpractice Screening Tribunal
6. Discovery
7. Proof With and Without Expert Testimony
8. Defenses
9. Institutional and Vicarious Liability for Medical Malpractice
10. Trials
11. Verdict Requirements and Limitations on Verdicts and Attorney Fees
12. Other Medical Professionals
13. Medical Products Liability
Part II. Legal Malpractice
1. The Unavoidable Malpractice Risk
2. An Overview of Legal Malpractice Liability
3. An Annotated Primer of Legal Malpractice Law in Massachusetts
4. Non–Malpractice Bases for Attorney Liability
Part III. Other Professions
1. Malpractice Issues Affecting Other, Non–Medical, Non–Legal Professions
Appendix A. Massachusetts Cases Citing to the Restatement (Third) of the Law Governing Lawyers
Table of Laws and Rules
Table of Cases
Index

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