Healthcare Litigation and Risk Management

Catalog description

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the healthcare litigation process, including the filing of the complaint, responding to the complaint, discovery, trial, appeal, and collection. Students will learn how to develop healthcare contracts, and define the nature of the physician-patient relationship within those contracts. Students will have an opportunity to apply the major theories of liability in cases involving healthcare organizations, including respondent superior, informed consent, independent contractor status, apparent agency and direct corporate liability. Common defenses to professional liability claims will also be covered, as will important laws relating to liability insurance and peer review. The course will also introduce best practices to reduce the risk of policy, regulatory or legal violations, as well as best practices to address potential and or actual violations.