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Compensation Schemes for Damages Caused by Healthcare and Alternatives to Court Proceedings

Comparative Law Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. Dobrochna Bach-Golecka

    1. Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

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  • Offers a new approach to patients’ rights
  • Presents an interdisciplinary perspective on mediation
  • Provides a contemporary view of healthcare compensation schemes

Part of the book series: Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law (GSCL, volume 53)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Compensation Schemes and Extra-Judicial Solutions in Case of Medical Malpractice. A Commentary on Contemporary Arrangements

    • Dobrochna Bach-Golecka
    Pages 1-39

  3. L’indemnisation des dommages résultant des soins de santé et les alternatives aux procédures judiciaires – Rapport belge

    • Catherine Delforge, Camille Delbrassinne
    Pages 41-70

  4. Compensation Schemes for Damages Caused by Healthcare in Brazil

    • Gisela Sampaio da Cruz
    Pages 71-96

  5. La responsabilité médicale et hospitalière en droit civil québécois : Principes généraux et alternatives à la voie judiciaire

    • Patrice Deslauriers, Sebastian Fernandez
    Pages 97-137

  6. Medical Mal Practice and Mediation in Cyprus: Mediation as a Potential Way of Resolving Medical Mal Practice Disputes

    • Anna Plevri
    Pages 139-162

  7. Compensation for Damages in the Cases of Medical Malpractice: Estonian Perspective

    • Dina Sõritsa, Janno Lahe
    Pages 163-178

  8. The French Medical Accident Compensation Scheme. A Critical Assessment of the Patients’ Rights Act of 4 March 2002

    • Jonas Knetsch
    Pages 179-193

  9. Legal Questions Concerning Medical Malpractice Liability: Substantive Law and Its Enforcement

    • Andreas Spickhoff
    Pages 195-213

  10. Challenges and Contradictions About Medical Malpractice in Hungary

    • Balázs Tőkey
    Pages 215-223

  11. The Judge, the Legislator and … the Mediator. The Long Journey of Medical Malpractice in Italy

    • Alessandra De Luca
    Pages 225-245

  12. Liabilities for Damages Resulting from Medical Treatment and Dispute Resolution System in Japan

    • Hideki Ishibashi, Chihara Watanabe
    Pages 247-268

  13. Innovating Compensation for Medical Liability in the Netherlands

    • Berber Laarman, Arno Akkermans
    Pages 269-292

  14. Medical Injury in New Zealand

    • Stephen Todd
    Pages 293-335

  15. Medical Negligence Proceedings in Singapore: Instilling a Gentler Touch

    • Dorcas Quek Anderson
    Pages 337-351

  16. Damages in Medical Malpractice Cases and Alternatives to Court Proceedings: A Slovenian Perspective

    • Damjan Možina, Karmen Lutman
    Pages 353-370

  17. Excessive Litigation for Harm Arising from Medical Malpractice in South Africa: Reasons, Consequences and Potential Reform

    • Bernard Wessels
    Pages 371-410

  18. Compensation Schemes for Damages Caused by Healthcare and Alternatives to Court Proceedings

    • Hsiu-I Yang
    Pages 411-432

  19. Alternative Compensation Schemes for Medical Malpractice in the United Kingdom

    • Colm Peter McGrath
    Pages 433-459
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The book discusses compensation mechanisms and other non-judicial means that offer alternatives to court proceedings, designed and provided for within national legal regimes. Such schemes are primarily of a civil or administrative character and are mainly intended to supplement criminal liability for medical negligence. As such, the book focuses on medical malpractice and prospective medical harm from a civil law perspective.

It examines the contemporary perspective of a patient-physician relationship, which has evolved from a relation of a quasi-patrimonial character into a partnership of quasi-equal parties, dealing with a medical treatment procedure as a scientific endeavor. It also reviews the extra-legal conditions that are taken into account in compensation arrangements, particularly the need to satisfy a psychological urge for conciliation and empathy on the part of medical personnel. Lastly, the book explores the responsibility of public authorities and healthcare providers to guarantee access to healthcare that is of a sufficient quality, based upon standards provided for in international (and European) law.



Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

    Dobrochna Bach-Golecka

About the editor

Dobrochna Bach-Golecka is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law University of Warsaw, where she works as a Vice Dean for Legal Research and International Cooperation. She was appointed judge ad hoc at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (2016-2018) and is a member of European Association of Health Law (Advisory Board), International Law Association, Research Network on European Administrative Law (ReNEUAL). Her publications focus on healthcare law, human rights, European and administrative law, ethics. 

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