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    Nursing Liability

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    Nursing Liability The American Nurse Association provides guidelines and policies for standards of care and scope of practice; they are listed in the Nurse Practice act. While hospital policies may vary from facility to facility it is the Nurse Practice Act that guides and dictates the standards by which nurse perform their duties and are held liable. Nurse have the legal duty of adhering to the standards of care whenever they are taking care of patients‚ when they fail to perform to these standard

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    Professional Liability

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    Professional Regulation and Criminal Liability Many natures of complaints occur throughout the health care workforce. Because of the dramatic changes in how health care is delivered over the past few years‚ consumer concerns about liability issues have increased. Patients put their physical health and trust in the hands of health care providers daily. Unfortunately‚ there have been periods when the treatment provided‚ has been accidental or intentional and caused physician harm to the patient.

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    Tort Liabilities

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    Tort Liabilities Nursing homes have the potential to have tort liabilities if the problems are not corrected if harm should occur. A nursing home is a busy place and with different people coming and going throughout the day. A nursing home is a high demand for care of residents. Nursing home staff should be knowledgeable about the resident’s quality of care and should be licensed to perform the care that is given. Possible Tort Liability: Resident that wanders. These residents are

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    Liability in Workplace

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    1. Teddy’s Supplies’ CEO has asked you to advise him on the facts of the case‚ and your opinion of their potential liability.  He wants to settle the case. Write a memo to him which states your view of whether the company is exposed to liability on all issues you feel are in play. Include in your memo any laws which apply and any precedential cases either for or against Teddy’s case which impact liability. Include in the memo your suggested "offer of settlement" to Virginia. Back up your offer using

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    Contingent Liabilities

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    Contingent liabilities are possible future liabilities that will only become certain on the occurrence of some future events. A contingent liability is less certain than a provision‚ the latter is expected to recognize; however‚ a contingent liability might occur. An entity shall not recognize a contingent liability; nevertheless‚ the company should disclose it‚ as required by paragraph 86‚ unless the possibility of an outflow of resources embodying economic benefits is remote. Where an entity

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    Occupiers Liability

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    OCCUPIERS LIABILITY The occupancy of premises is affected by two statues: 1) The occupier’s liability act 1957. Under this act there is a duty to keep safe and lawful visitors to the premises 2) The occupier’s liability act 1984. Where an occupier may owe a duty to protect trespassers onto the premises. LAWFUL VISITORS A lawful visitor has permission to enter premises. This can be expressed permission of implied. There are four situations covering implied permissions: 1) If the occupier

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    Liability of Foreigness

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    Journal of International Management 8 (2002) 223 – 240 Liability of foreignness to competitive advantage: How multinational enterprises cope with the international business environment Deepak Sethi*‚ Stephen Guisinger 1 University of Texas at Dallas‚ P.O. Box 830688‚ Richardson‚ TX 75083-0688‚ USA Abstract An expanded and holistic conceptualization of the liability of foreignness (LOF) is presented that goes beyond the traditional foreign subsidiary – local firm dyad in the host country.

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    Administrative Liability

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    to the filing of the administrative case since the operative fact that determines its jurisdiction is the commission of an offense while in the public service. The Ombudsman relies on Section VI(1) of Civil Service Commission Memorandum Circular No. 38 for this proposition‚ viz.: Section VI. 1. x x x An officer or employee under administrative investigation may be allowed to resign pending decision of his case but it shall be without prejudice to the continuation of the proceeding against

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    Liability for Omissions

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    Liability for Omissions The law has historically been reluctant to impose a general liability for omissions as opposed to positive acts. This means that there is no general duty of care in tort to act in order to prevent harm occurring to another. In Smith v Littlewoods Organisation‚ Lord Goff stated clearly that “the common law does not impose liability for what are called pure omissions”. Similarly‚ in Yuen Kun Yeu v A-G of Hong Kong‚ Lord Keith stated that people can ignore their moral responsibilities

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    Liabilities of a Director

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    LIABILITIES OF THE DIRECTORS By: Course: Instructor: University‚ City‚ State: Date: LIABILITIES OF THE DIRECTORS A company is usually established by individuals or Directors (officers included) in this case so as to run it in appropriate manner in order to make maximum profits. For this to happen‚ it is for the company (Pandora Diamonds and Gems Pty Ltd in our case) to enter or make contracts with outsiders like Kaplan Bank Ltd and Space Solutions Pty

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