ML: Medical Liability and Negligence (Guerrini/Safier)
Faculty
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| Dominic Guerrini Lecturer in Law dominic.guerrini@klinespecter.com |
Additional Information
Skills Training
Oral Presentations
Drafting Legal Documents
Grading
15% Participation,
85% Exam
Exam
Essay,
Take Home,
Open-Book
No
Class meets in person.
Course Continuity
Students are encouraged to stay home if you are ill or experience flu-like symptoms. If you miss a class for any reason, it is still your responsibility to make up the work missed.
I offer the following to students who miss class due to illness:
- Class sessions are regularly recorded. I will make these recordings routinely available on the course site to everyone in the class.
- I will make PowerPoint slides or other class materials routinely available on the course site to everyone in the class.
Meeting Times/Location
R 5:30PM - 8:15PM
Gittis Hall 2
Category
Masters in Law
Credits
3.0
This course is designed for students with an interest in health care, medical malpractice, patient safety, complex tort issues and medical legal issues. It is ideal for those in the medical field and those pursuing employment in the medical profession.
This course will provide an insider’s perspective on medical malpractice claims and the medico-legal considerations that those working in healthcare encounter in their daily work. We will begin with an introduction to basic concepts of negligence (tort) law. After covering these foundations, we will then discuss medical liability issues arising from the treatment relationship between health care providers and their patients. Topics will include the procedural elements that must be met before a suit can be filed; discovery that typically occurs in medical malpractice cases; specific claims and defenses that can be made in a malpractice case; the role and function of expert witnesses; the trend towards alternative dispute resolution; and an analysis of other health care issues.
Courts and the Judicial System Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of both substantive and procedural issues in the operation of our legal system; Perform legal analysis in the context of procedural issues and the judicial process; Communicate effectively on topics related to procedure and the judicial process; Demonstrate an understanding of how procedural issues and the judicial process affect all other area of our legal system.
Health Law Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of health law and policy; Perform legal analysis in the context of health law and policy; Communicate effectively on topics related to health law and policy; Demonstrate an understanding of the interconnection among health law and policy and issues of access to services, public and private financing of health industries, and the political and economic issues surrounding issues of health law and health services.
Perspectives on the Law Learning outcomes: Demonstrate an understanding of how the law affects, and is affected by, the individual course topic; Perform legal analysis in the context of the individual course topic; Communicate effectively on the legal and other aspects of the individual course topic; Demonstrate the ability to use other disciplines to analyze legal issues relevant to the individual course topic, including economics, philosophy, and sociology, as appropriate.
Textbooks
"Law and Health Care Quality, Patient Safety, and Medical Liability" by Furrow, Greaney, Johnson, Jost & Schwartz |