Mukhtar Sprat Com.1 Proposition: California’s health department should keep the cap on medical malpractice damages at 250‚000 dollars. Specific purpose: At the end of my speech‚ my audience will raise awareness‚ write a letter to the local representative. Introduction I. Open with Impact: The negligent act by a health care provider‚ in which it causes the patient harm in any way is called medical malpractice. II. Central Idea: Lawyers are trying to push the reform of raising the medical mal practice
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liability of hospitals for physician negligence has been limited. But this is changing as hospitals evolve and vicarious liability doctrine is expanded by the courts. Scott v. SSM Healthcare St. Louis (2002) (page 419) -Lawsuit over medical malpractice after a teenager required brain surgery and sustained permanent injuries when a physician failed to properly diagnose a brain infection. Lawsuit targeted hospital even though treating physician was not a hospital employee. -Two elements to establish
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References: 1. Beckmann‚J.P.(1996)Nursing Negligence:Analyzing Malpractice in the hospital setting.USA:SAGE publications Ltd. 2. Beauchamp‚ T.L. & Childress‚ J.F. (1996). Principles of Bioethics (5th edn). Oxford University Press‚ New York. 3. Beauchamp‚ T.L 4. Crisp‚ J. & Taylor‚ C. (2000). Potter and Perry’s Fundamental
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the economy in which stock returns are independent because this risk can be diversified away in a large portfolio. 10-30. What does the beta of a stock measure? Beta measures the amount of systemic risk in a stock 10-35. Suppose the market risk premium is 5% and the risk-free interest rate is 4%. Using the data in Table 10.6‚ calculate the expected return of investing in a. Starbucks’ stock. b. Hershey’s stock. c.
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POLICY –POLICY SCHEDULE This Policy Schedule is subject to the terms and conditions of the Master Policy No. 137300-0000-00 mentioned on the Certificate of Insurance (COI) issued to Insured (Account Holder) based on his/her Proposal and payment of the Premium. The Certificate of Insurance records the agreement between Insured (Account older) and SBI General Insurance Company and sets out the brief terms of insurance and the obligations of each party as below: Master Policy No: 137300-0000-00 Master Policy
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How‚ if at all‚ should these anticipated uses affect the calculations? 2. Calculate Midland’s corporate WACC. Be prepared to defend your specific assumptions about the various inputs to the calculations. Is Midland’s choice of equity market risk premium appropriate? If not‚ what recommendations would you make and why? 3. Should Midland use a single corporate hurdle rate for evaluating investment opportunities in all of its divisions? Why or why not? Shouln’t. With different divisions‚ each containing
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Wrongful birth By: Kelly Vaughn In March 2012‚ Arizona passed a bill that will prohibit medical malpractice lawsuits against doctors that withhold information from expectant mothers that may cause her to have an abortion. The bill is not currently a law yet in the state of Arizona but nine other states do have such laws. The states that do have wrongful birth laws are Pennsylvania‚ North Dakota‚ South Dakota‚ Utah‚ Idaho‚ Indiana‚ Missouri‚ Minnesota and North Carolina. A wrongful birth
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as Medicaid‚ are reimbursed through co-pays‚ and premiums (“Medicaid Payment Expectations‚ “ n.d.). As mentioned before‚ payment expectations will vary by state but should not be much different. Co-pays are the rate at how much is to be paid for the services or a prescription a patient will be receiving (“Medicaid Payment Expectations‚” n.d.). Co-pay rates are rates that are agreed upon by the Medicaid program and type an individual has. Premiums are out of
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of the governemt who evaluate laws‚ clarifies laws‚ resolves disagreements and decides if a law goes against the Constitution. According to Dana C. McWay‚ there are four elemens a AAG must show to succesed in a negligence clain for medical malpractice. The first element to provide is the “a duty of care is owed to the patient”( MacWay‚ 2016 ). This means the health care provider have the duty and responsible for provideding treatment or care to patient (Baranoski &
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are acceptable but‚ because the Dividend-growth model is subjective‚ and the coupon rate (that PPC was originally using is a sunk cost‚ they should use the market rate). Thus using the market rate to calculate CAPM you use the Beta and market risk premium which are both based on the market rate and more accurate. Finally‚ their company WACC of 9% that they have calculated is incorrect and given the above calculations‚ their WACC using CAPM would be: [5.28(.5)+14.6(.5)]=9.94% and their WACC using
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