Tort Law in Healthcare

Law of Tort in Healthcare
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Law of Tort in Healthcare
Role and Success of Tort Law in Promoting High Quality Health Care
Law of tort involves the claimant suffering due to harm which leads to legal liability for the party who had committed the tortious offense. The aim of tort law in healthcare is to obtain the remedy such as damages and criminal wrongs. Tort law in health care reduces the number of frivolous lawsuits against the nurses. It minimizes the malpractice in healthcare insurance premiums. The changes done according to the criminal law reduce the chances of victims filing lawsuits, therefore, protecting the claimant against damages. Tort protects patients from medical negligence and limits in the file time for filing lawsuits thus improving the quality of healthcare. The claimant gets recovery in case of tortuous wrong doings by medical officers. A court of law summons the health insurers in case of criminal mistakes according to tort principles (Runciman, 2013).
Again application of tort law in health care reduces the cost of healthcare by lowering the cost of insurance and the litigation cost. Therefore, the patients get quality healthcare without exploitation. Thus tort law leads to economic reforms to facilitate credible services to patients.
Does Tort Law Help To Deter Errors?
Tort law helps to deter errors providing practical and smooth time limitations which make healthcare criminal wrongs hard to pursue with correct procedure.

The medical practitioners liable for the careless mistakes are punished under medical tort. Enforcement of liability law pressure reduces the preventable medical complications due to negligence thus deterring errors.
The Alternatives to Tort Law System to Promote High Quality Health Care
The alternatives for tort law include medical courts, disclosure, and offer and establishing safe harbor. Therapeutic courts create an environment where specialized judges determine the outcome for complex medical-related cases and ensure compensation of patients if a medical officer is found guilty (Angus, 2014). Therefore, no attorney can sway the verdict in favor of respondent or claimant. On the other hand, disclosure and offer demonstrations disclose the events which have caused harm to the patients and compensation demanded. The patients have the right to sue the party involved in malpractice and demand for remedy. Additionally, safe harbors make the nurse abide by the evidence-based guidelines. It therefore creates “safe harbour” for the patients from liability.
References
Runciman, W. B., Merry, A. F., & Tito, F. (2013). Error, blame, and the law in health care—an antipodean perspective. Annals of internal medicine, 138(12), 974-979.
Angus, D. C., & Black, N. (2014). Improving care of the critically ill: institutional and health-care system approaches. The Lancet, 363(9417), 1314-1320.