Social Sciences and the Law

What is malpractice?

Link to this answer

CloseClose

Link to this answer

Share this credible answer with others. Simply paste this code into your blog or Web page:

<a href="http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/malpractice-207862.html" >What is malpractice?</a>
E-mail this answer Link to this answer

Malpractice is the failure to provide professional services with the skill usually exhibited by responsible and careful members of the profession, resulting in injury, loss, or damage to the party contracting those services.

Answer verified with
Get more facts and information about malpractice . Or, view the full encyclopedia entry from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.

Similar questions: What is the definition of malpractice? What kind of failure is malpractice? What is involved in malpractice? [ Hide these questions ]

Related research questions

Related research articles

Malpractice ruling may shake system, experts say.
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) ...furious debates about rising medical malpractice rates, Wisconsin was a bastion of civility...declared that the state's cap on medical malpractice awards for non-economic damages...that contributed to the good medical malpractice environment in Wisconsin," said Theresa...
Malpractice caps can bring more doctors to an area.
Newspaper article from: State Health Watch Malpractice caps can bring more doctors to an area...reason for wanting to enact caps on malpractice awards, one of the tangential benefits...payments for noneconomic damages in malpractice cases and whether those laws have increased...
Malpractice myths and coverups.(medical malpractice)
Newspaper article from: Nutrition Health Review Mention the subject of medical malpractice, and the debate will most likely focus...investigate how much of the blame frivolous malpractice suits deserve. The study centered on five large malpractice insurers that offered their records for...
Malpractice is the problem not the high cost of malpractice insurance.
Newspaper article from: HealthFacts We are in the grip of a malpractice insurance crisis because doctors...told, as a result of astronomical malpractice awards, many of them frivolous...conveyed by the media whenever a malpractice insurance crisis resurfaces every...
MALPRACTICE CAPS LURE DOCTORS.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) ...injured patients can seek in medical malpractice lawsuits have seen doctors flock to...states that have recently adopted malpractice reforms, even though a third study found that growth in malpractice payments was no greater than the overall...
See all results at HighBeam

HighBeam gives you access to newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles plus press releases, facts, information, and biographies from thousands of sources.