Medicolegal Issues

Legal duty to nonpatients: Driving accidents

Publish date: August 16, 2019

A doctor’s legal duty may be extended to individuals other than patients in limited circumstances.

Publish date: March 19, 2018

How do the requirements of the Americans With Disabilities Act determine physicians’ treatment duties?

Publish date: February 10, 2016

Publish date: October 20, 2015

Physicians paid about the same in medical liability insurance premiums in 2015 as they did in 2014. A nationwide survey of insurers by the Medical...

Publish date: September 3, 2015

Transgender patients who receive health care via government programs or funding must receive equal access to treatments and insurance coverage,...

Publish date: July 26, 2015

The government’s push toward value-based care aims to fix a broken reimbursement system and improve quality of care for patients. But the new...