During the Covid-19 pandemic, many countries around the world are considering whether and how to provide liability protection to front-line healthcare staff. The guiding principle of liability protection for physicians and others is to ensure that, in a serious emergency situation, health professionals can devote themselves exclusively to their work and to patient care, without the fear of future claims for unforeseeable, but above all unavoidable, injury, loss and damage caused by their conduct. Great care is needed to balance the interests and rights of all those involved. Liability protection could have risky consequences with the final result that doctors will not be protected, but institutions such as health facilities will be even if they were in fact responsible for foreseeable and avoidable damage.

Covid-19 and medical liability: a delicate balance / Cioffi, Andrea; Rinaldi, Raffaella. - In: THE MEDICO-LEGAL JOURNAL. - ISSN 0025-8172. - 88:4(2020), pp. 187-188. [10.1177/0025817220935879]

Covid-19 and medical liability: a delicate balance

Cioffi, Andrea;Rinaldi, Raffaella
2020

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During the Covid-19 pandemic, many countries around the world are considering whether and how to provide liability protection to front-line healthcare staff. The guiding principle of liability protection for physicians and others is to ensure that, in a serious emergency situation, health professionals can devote themselves exclusively to their work and to patient care, without the fear of future claims for unforeseeable, but above all unavoidable, injury, loss and damage caused by their conduct. Great care is needed to balance the interests and rights of all those involved. Liability protection could have risky consequences with the final result that doctors will not be protected, but institutions such as health facilities will be even if they were in fact responsible for foreseeable and avoidable damage.
2020
Covid-19; Sars-Cov-2; liability protections; medical liability
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Covid-19 and medical liability: a delicate balance / Cioffi, Andrea; Rinaldi, Raffaella. - In: THE MEDICO-LEGAL JOURNAL. - ISSN 0025-8172. - 88:4(2020), pp. 187-188. [10.1177/0025817220935879]
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