Medical Negligence: Non-Patient and Third Party Claims

Mulheron (medical law and ethics, Queen Mary U., London) writes about claims for negligence by non-patient and third parties against healthcare professionals in a manner she hopes will be useful within the legal and medical professions. Her topics include establishing negligence in novel non-patient scenarios, injuries to non-patients caused by physically injured or mentally-ill patients, failing to assist non-patients, intervening to assist non-patients, pure economic loss claims by third parties associated with the patient, and wrongfully accused third parties in neglect or abuse cases. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Rachael Mulheron is Professor of Law at Queen Mary University of London. A former practising lawyer in Brisbane, Australia, she is also author of The Class Action in Common Law Legal Systems: A Comparative Perspective (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2004), and The Modern Cy-prA‥s Doctrine: Applications and Implications (Routledge Cavendish Publishing, London, 2006).