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Damage to health: comparative study
Lachváčová, Zuzana ; Šustek, Petr (advisor) ; Salač, Josef (referee)
Damage to health: comparative study The final thesis deals with the issue of damage to health in the Czech, American and French legislation and case law. The work deals with individual claims arising from injuries and thesis describes the criteria and methods of compensation for these claims. The thesis is divided into three chapters, which are further divided into subsections and subchapters. The first half of the thesis describes the legislation of damage to health and personal injury in the Czech law. This part focuses on the conditions that must be met in order to create an obligation of compensation for personal injury. It also describes the damage to health and its partial claims which may be compensated and it describes the process of determining the amount of damages according to the Methodology of the Supreme Court. Final part of this chapter deals with damages to health caused by medical malpractice. The second half of the thesis is divided into two parts, the first part deals with the US legislation of compensation for damage to health and the second part concentrates on the French legislation which deals with this institute. In the chapter devoted to American law, the work describes the different types of personal injury compensation, which developed in the United States. The thesis...
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Strategy of the defendant in medical litigations over damagesformedical malpractice resulting in injury or death
Kouřílek, Tomáš ; Holčapek, Tomáš (advisor) ; Salač, Josef (referee)
1 Abstract The thesis is focused primarily on medical litigations in which either patient or (usually) his family apply for a remedy due to a medical malpractice (deviation from medical proffesional duty of care (lex artis) resulting in injury or death of the pacient. Author concentrate on this problematics from the perspective of defendant. At first, he think about setting targets of the hospital (defendant) in the dispute, then he consider ways to achieve these goals (which instruments can be used) . The thesis also consists of analyses of 20 medical litigations. Before the main part author introduces general theoretical questions and refer to the literature on which he based his thesis, as he decided to not deal with general issues. In this context he mentions areas to which, according to him, the doctrine does not yet provide answers. The author's research follows these questions and in following text he concentrates on them and tries to find the answers to controversial questions. These includes, for example, whether in practice the concept of "další nemajetkové újmy" is fulfilled the intention of the lawgiver, wheter the regulation of liberation of liability is applicable in medical litigations and what is its relationship with the "lex artis corrections". After this, the author specifies the methods...
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Obligation to compensate for personal injury in connection with provision of health care
Smrž, Ivo ; Salač, Josef (advisor) ; Šustek, Petr (referee) ; Sovová, Olga (referee)
Obligation to compensate for personal injury in connection with provision of health care This dissertation is focused on the obligation to compensate for personal injury in connection with the provision of health care. The aim of the dissertation is to analyse relevant general elements of the obligation to compensate for personal injury as well as relevant special elements of such obligation. The dissertation surveys the interpretation of conceptual changes related to the recodification of Czech private law in the area of tort law in connection with the provision of health care. Legal basis of the doctor-patient relationship will also be analysed because such analysis is crucial for determination which elements of the obligation to compensate for personal injury will regularly be applied in this field. Therefore, the first chapter is devoted to the legal nature of the doctor-patient relationship. The second chapter deals with the obligation to compensate for personal injury caused by the provision of health care, i.e. with the definition and analysis of relevant elements of such obligation in this field. The third chapter is focused on the wrongfulness as one of the significant elements of the obligation to compensate for personal injury; substantial attention of this chapter is aimed at the...
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Criminal liability in provision of health care - selected issues
Vychyta, Jan ; Vokoun, Rudolf (advisor) ; Herczeg, Jiří (referee)
The subject of this rigorous thesis is an analysis of a mutual relationship between criminal law and medicine with a focus on an application of criminal responsibility of physicians and other medical staff in a current Czech legal system. The aim of the thesis is to introduce various issues of criminalization of health care professionals from broader perspective, first and foremost in connection with harm caused to patients due to medical malpractice, as well as to outline the possibilities of its future development and to present solutions to specific legal problems. The thesis consists of three chapters further divided into two levels of sub-chapters, along with a brief introduction and a conclusion. After a short excursion related to historical views and development of legal incursions into the field of medicine (chapter 2) follow two main chapters that are to be considered a core of the thesis and which resemble to a certain extent typical structuring of traditional European penal codes. The third chapter labeled "Criminal liability in provision of health care - general part" deals with foundations of criminal liability and its application in the healthcare context, presents various legal approaches to medical care and describes certain legal institutes that are usually not considered to be a...
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A Non Lege Artis Procedure as a Primary Precondition of Liability for Personal Injury
Šrobová, Linda ; Thöndel, Alexandr (referee) ; Salač, Josef (referee)
The thesis is focused on infringement of healthcare providers, which might be committed in case of violation of contract appointed duty. Such method is referred to as non lege artis. Shall patient enforce his title to compensate bodily harm, non lege artis is the primary assumption of provider's civil liability for health damage origin of the patient. This work addresses the introduction of legislation in this matter; in fact both legislation on health care incorporated in the Commercial Code, and also it is in some parts returning to the old legislation contained in the Civil Code, because most of court ruling from this area relate to the provisions of the Civil Code. The goal of my thesis is to use legal and extralegal analysis, court ruling, foreign literature and practical cases to interprete the concept lege artis/non lege artis and concentrate on particular situations, where the healthcare provider uses non lege artis method. Individual non lege artis cases were evaluated thank to specification of particular duties of healthcare providers. Regarding the fact that we can view lege artis/non lege artis method in dual approach, concretely lege artis stricto sensu/lege artis largo sensu, my thesis also dealt with the interpretation of this dual approach. Procedural aspect of this issue was not...
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Lex artis - Legal Interpretation of the Issue (comparative analysis)
Mikulová, Magdalena ; Hendrychová, Michaela (referee) ; Frinta, Ondřej (referee)
This diploma thesis goes into a problem of the legal interpretation of the term lex artis, which some authors describe as well-known term of unknown content. Generally, this term relates to the activities of doctors and other health care professionals within taking care of patients, and usually we can meet with the ablative lege artis, which is used to denote a professionally correct action. This term is in common usage also in the reference books and case law where the breach of the duty to act lege artis is considered to be a precondition for liability of physician or health care provider for injury to the patient. Certain difficulty of using the term lex artis lies in the fact that the legislation in force does not mention not even define this term and its meaning must therefore be inferred from legislation by interpretation. For the legal definition of lex artis is from 1st April 2012 considered the provision of s. 4 (5) of Act No. 372/2011 Sb., about Health Services and Terms (the Health Services Act), as amended, which defines appropriate professional standard of providing health services and which is from the early beginning criticized by the part of professionals for its alleged conflict with patients' rights guaranteed by the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine. The aim of this...
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Damage to health: comparative study
Lachváčová, Zuzana ; Šustek, Petr (advisor) ; Salač, Josef (referee)
Damage to health: comparative study The final thesis deals with the issue of damage to health in the Czech, American and French legislation and case law. The work deals with individual claims arising from injuries and thesis describes the criteria and methods of compensation for these claims. The thesis is divided into three chapters, which are further divided into subsections and subchapters. The first half of the thesis describes the legislation of damage to health and personal injury in the Czech law. This part focuses on the conditions that must be met in order to create an obligation of compensation for personal injury. It also describes the damage to health and its partial claims which may be compensated and it describes the process of determining the amount of damages according to the Methodology of the Supreme Court. Final part of this chapter deals with damages to health caused by medical malpractice. The second half of the thesis is divided into two parts, the first part deals with the US legislation of compensation for damage to health and the second part concentrates on the French legislation which deals with this institute. In the chapter devoted to American law, the work describes the different types of personal injury compensation, which developed in the United States. The thesis...
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Lex Artis-Legal Interpretation of the Issue (Comparative Analysis)
Mikulová, Magdalena ; Šustek, Petr (advisor) ; Hendrychová, Michaela (referee)
This diploma thesis goes into a problem of the legal interpretation of the term lex artis, which some authors describe as well-known term of unknown content. Generally, this term relates to the activities of doctors and other health care professionals within taking care of patients, and usually we can meet with the ablative lege artis, which is used to denote a professionally correct action. This term is in common usage also in the reference books and case law where the breach of the duty to act lege artis is considered to be a precondition for liability of physician or health care provider for injury to the patient. Certain difficulty of using the term lex artis lies in the fact that the legislation in force does not mention not even define this term and its meaning must therefore be inferred from legislation by interpretation. For the legal definition of lex artis is from 1st April 2012 considered the provision of s. 4 (5) of Act No. 372/2011 Sb., about Health Services and Terms (the Health Services Act), as amended, which defines appropriate professional standard of providing health services and which is from the early beginning criticized by the part of professionals for its alleged conflict with patients' rights guaranteed by the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine. The aim of this...
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Studie možných efektů zavedení tabulek k náhradě újmy
Mus, Jakub ; Bertoli, Paola (advisor) ; Dušek, Libor (referee)
The present thesis investigates the possible effects of limiting the compensations victims can obtain in medical malpractice cases through schedules of noneconomic damages. While economic damages are rather simple to calculate, problems arise with respect to the assessment of noneconomic damages. To reduce both the variability in the compensations granted to victims and the perception of a high level of arbitrariness in determining noneconomic losses, many countries have adopted different types of ceilings to limit the nonmonetary component of malpractice compensations. While flat and tiered caps have been widely studied in the related literature, the effects of schedules are still debated due to the scarce available evidence. Using Italy as a case study, I investigated the likely impact of schedules on noneconomic damages on a number of key outcomes showing that this policy can affect patients´ behavior and the filing of malpractice claims. Schedules are associated to a lower number of claims as well as of claims not decided on the merit. These results seem to be due to a drop in the number of frivolous claims. In addition, under schedules, average compensation and trial duration results to be higher. This is consistent with the expectation that under schedules there is a higher frequency of claims involving serious injuries. Hence, results could be further explored and used also in Czech Republic policy.
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