Legal Aspect and Health Care

Running head : Legal Aspect and Health Care

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Vicarious liability is a tort that arises under common law doctrine in agency relationship whereby a superior person is responsible for failures of his or her subordinates . The doctrine of agency arises in several cases such as parent and child , principle and agent , teacher and student , or employer and employee . In this , employer and employee relationship is the main point of concern . In many organizations or corporations , the employer is responsible for negligent conduct of the employee

p In other circumstances , an organization can engage in conduct deemed illegal such as in health care . This results to a corporate criminal liability which is different from vicarious liability . The writer of the aims at distinguishing between corporate criminal liability and vicarious liability resulting from negligence of health care organizations employee . In this aspect , the major area of concern is to address legal elements of criminal versus negligent liability that arises because of employee conduct

A corporation is a legal person that can be sued and sue in its capacity its natural persons that is employees . As a legal person , a corporation is liable for the acts and omissions of employees . In criminal law , the responsibility of a corporation for acts of its employees is known as criminal vicarious liability (Bloche Gregg , 2003 Corporate criminal liability is charging a corporation for criminal mistakes or offenses committed by directors , officers , employees or managers

A corporation is only liable for mistakes of...