Medical accident liability and redress in English and French law / Simon Taylor.
In 2002 France introduced an out-of-court settlement scheme for medical accidents. The scheme guarantees compensation for the victims of the most serious medical accidents irrespective of fault and operates in parallel with existing liability rules. In this book Simon Taylor compares English and Fre...
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Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The state of medical accident liability and redress in England
- Medical accident liability and redress in France: a comparative analysis
- Differing cultures of civil liability
- The cost of medical accident redress
- Problems posed by the French administrative compensation scheme
- Shaping the doctor-patient relationship through civil liability law
- Medical accident liability and redress : promoting patient safety?
- General conclusion.