Legal Aspects of Health Care

Legal Aspects of Health Care

Potential Liability

In this case, several parties are liable for negligence due to which Bobby had both his hands amputated. Firstly, it was the duty of ACE Sports to carefully check its products before they were installed since children were supposed to use it. Bobby cannot be deemed responsible for his injury since such slam dunks are common in basket ball and the school should have also checked the installed equipment so that such a mishap could be prevented.

At the hospital, the nurse cared for Bobby immediately but failed to get his treated on ...