Healthcare professionals face bigger challenges than ever as a result of malpractice lawsuits against them. According to McCool et al (2015), lawsuit following adverse outcomes in clinical practice is commonplace in the United States. Sadly, lawsuits are brought against smart, caring and highly competent professionals (such as the Physicians and nurses) in everyday practice alleging mistakes for failing to assess, monitor, document and/or follow standards of care. While it is true that…
Considering A Lawsuit Against A Dentist For Malpractice? Consider These 3 Things Have you been suffering from serious damage or pain after you had a procedure performed at the dentist? Are you feeling like the dentist that worked with you was negligent with how they treated your problem? You may be considering a lawsuit against them for medical malpractice. Malpractice can happen with dentists in the same way it happens with doctors. When serious cases of malpractice are ruled on in court, it…
The HP Age Discrimination Lawsuit There have been complaints about the discrimination that is happening in the workplace, such as people losing their jobs based on race, religion, sex and age. The company even went to the extent of putting certain requirements in the guidelines that insinuated that they were only going to hire new comers of a certain age group , this was not a good idea for employees who has being laid off due to a certain age group. This opportunity was a promotion for younger…
be a good candidate for a Class Action Lawsuit. In these types of suits, many people with a common cause join together to file suit. Suits of this type are allowed when (1) The group share common questions of law that can be settled in the same suit, (2) it is not possible for the group members to bring the action individually, and (3) it is seen as a better approach than requiring the plaintiffs to file separate suits. Unfortunately, class action lawsuits are easy to abuse (Brown). The…
This case was based upon Swissport Fueling to pay $250,000 to settle EEOC race and national Origin harassment Lawsuit. The African fuelers who were at the Phoenix airport were repeatedly called and referred to as “Monkeys” by swissport manager. Out of spite and anger the manager subjected the African people as monkeys by meaning “what were they doing there as if they did not belong. This harmfully affected those African people who were from nations such as Sudan, Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone.…
The lawsuit case against Taco Bell was dropped following the ads and videos created by the organization disproving the accusation of their meat only being thirty-five percent beef (Crandall, Parnell, & Spillan, 2013). Taco Bell was dedicated in protecting their product against such claims. The company did not hide the ingredients used in their meat from anyone. They addressed the public head-on about the crisis and never backed down. A plan was developed to minimize the effects of the crisis…
brought against Widget Corporation and suggest various courses of action for dealing with the lawsuit. The author will review two areas of law by which a case can be brought – contract and tort law. The author will reference the Universal Commercial Code as well as US tort law to present various arguments and counter arguments that will allow Widget Corporation to best defend itself against the lawsuit. Procedural Law In order to determine the proper procedural proceedings, the author must first…
This honors contract research project will be a research paper that examines Margaret Fuller’s “The Great Lawsuit”, specifically the selections Four Kinds of Equality and The Great Radical Dualism, that no other honors student in the class will use for their project. The analysis of this literary work will include an annotated bibliography with at least ten secondary scholarly sources. These references will serve to give a variety of scholarly viewpoints and critiques on Fuller and the issues…
huge target for the trade organization, Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The RIAA represents the major recording labels in America and fights copyright infringement on behalf of the record companies and artists. The RIAA filed a lawsuit against LimeWire in 2006 and it became one of the biggest cases for the RIAA because at the time of the suit, about 93% of the files on LimeWire were protected under copyright…
Allyson L. Masciotti-Hamedl and Kevin Hamedl, from Poughquag, N.Y., which is located in Dutchess County, N.Y. have a lawsuit against Disney Vacation Development Inc. They state that a bed bug infestation ruined their stay at Disney's Vero Beach resort in Florida. Continuing on, they mention suffering from physical and emotional distress for several months afterwards. Their lawsuit is seeking damages of between $100,000 and $1 million. It states Disney failed to “exercise reasonable care and…