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2. Medical malpractice - Wikipedia

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   Medical malpractice is a legal cause of action that occurs when a medical or health care professional, through a negligent act or omission, deviates from standards in their profession, thereby causing injury or death to a patient. [1] The negligence might arise from errors in diagnosis, treatment, aftercare or health management.

3. Medical malpractice in the United States - Wikipedia

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   A 2004 study of medical malpractice claims in the United States examining primary care malpractice found that though incidence of negligence in hospitals produced a greater proportion of severe outcomes, the total number of errors and deaths due to errors were greater for outpatient settings. No single medical condition was associated with more ...

4. Professional negligence in English law - Wikipedia

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   Medical negligence (also known as medical malpractice) differs from other litigation because the claimant must rely on expert medical evidence to establish all the major elements of liability. Causation is particularly difficult to prove because the effects of the allegedly negligent treatment must be distinguished from those of the patient's ...

5. Malpractice - Wikipedia

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   Professional negligence actions require a professional relationship between the professional and the person claiming to have been injured by malpractice. [3] For example, to sue a lawyer for malpractice the person bringing the claim must have had an attorney-client relationship with the lawyer. [4]

6. Cause of action - Wikipedia

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   For example, for a claim of negligence, the elements are: the (existence of a) duty, breach (of that duty), proximate cause (by that breach), and damages. If a complaint does not allege facts sufficient to support every element of a claim, the court, upon motion by the opposing party, may dismiss the complaint for failure to state a claim for ...

7. Legal malpractice - Wikipedia

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   Negligence by the attorney, A loss or injury to the client caused by the negligence, and; Financial loss or injury to the client. To satisfy the third element, legal malpractice requires proof of what would have happened had the attorney not been negligent; that is, "but for" the attorney's negligence ("but for" causation). [3]