If you accuse someone of malpractice, you are accusing them of breaking the law or the rules of their profession in order to gain some advantage for themselves. There were only one or two serious allegations of malpractice. alleged financial malpractices. when a professional person makes a mistake or does not do their job properly and can be punished by a court. Negligence, misconduct, lack of ordinary skill, or breach of duty in the performance of a professional service (e.g., in medicine) that results in injury or loss. The plaintiff must usually demonstrate a failure by the professional to perform according to the field's accepted standards. Physicians, lawyers, accountants, and other professionals have increasingly been subject to malpractice suits in the U.S., causing a dramatic increase in malpractice insurance rates
Professional misconduct or lack of ordinary skill in the performance of a professional act which renders the practitioner liable to suit for damages (LA)
Professional negligence: An abrogation of a duty owed by a health care provider to the patient; the failure to exercise the degree of care used by reasonably careful practitioners of like qualifications in the same or similar circumstances For a plaintiff to collect damages in a court of law, the plaintiff's attorney must show that the provider owed the patient a duty and that the provider's violation of the standards of practice caused the patient's injury
Professional misconduct, negligence or lack of ordinary skill in the performance of a professional act Such action renders a person liable to suit for damages
Professional misconduct or lack of ordinary skill in the performance of a professional act Malpractice liability covers performance of a professional act Coverage for malpractice liability is excluded by most public liability policies because it is considered a specialized form of insurance
Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results
A performance by a professional which is deficient in skill from what might ordinarily be expected of a professional person The standard of performance to which a professional person will be held is necessarily higher than the standard which an unskilled person would be expected to display
a wrongful act that the actor had no right to do; improper professional conduct; "he charged them with electoral malpractices" professional wrongdoing that results in injury or damage; "the widow sued his surgeon for malpractice
A lawsuit brought against a professional person, such as a doctor, lawyer or engineer, for injury or loss caused by the defendant's negligence in providing professional services
Tortuous, compensable professional misconduct or lack of professional skill resulting in injury to another, especially when applied to lawyers, health care providers, and other people trained in a profession
*: Illegal or immoral conduct contrary to established rules resulting in failure to act correctly or legally when doing your job, which results in injury or loss
Improper actions or failure to exercise proper skill by a professional or others involved with the care of the human body, such as a physician, dentist, blood bank, etc Malpractice insurance is a form of liability coverage against such mistakes
1 A professional's improper or immoral conduct in the performance of his duties done either intentionally or through carelessness or ignorance; commonly applied to physicians, surgeons, dentists, lawyers and public officers to denote negligent or unskillful performance of duties where professional skills are obligatory on account of the fiduciary relationship with patients or clients BACK TO TOP
A dereliction from professional duty or a failure to exercise an accepted degree of professional skill or learning by one (as a physician) rendering professional services which results in injury, loss, or damage Also an injurious, negligent, or improper practice
a failure of a professional to act in accordance with the acceptable course of conduct, negligence of a member of a profession in a professional capacity