In continuation of risk factors, the employees’ failure to report a spill caused an occurrence of a Never Event, resulting in the fall of a patient whilst in a hospital setting. The strong litigation language of never events could result in the application of a strict liability standard […] medical liability, costs the nation between $76 billion and $102 billion per year in defensive medicine. For example, consider the case of a patient who falls […] total hip replacement. Under CMS guidelines, falls in a hospital are never events, because CMS believes that they should be preventable with due diligence. (Garrison LF and Labban AJ., 2008). The potential of ligation towards the hospital can be significant to their insurance premiums, return on
