Suits Against Health Care Professionals and Hospitals

Health care professionals and hospitals are responsible for compensating a patient injured as a result of medical malpractice. Medical malpractice suits arise under the following circumstances:

1. Against a government agency that operates hospitals or provides specified medical care.
2. Against a hospital for administering improper or overdoses of medication, negligent nursing care, inadequate sanitation, infection, or equipment failure.
3. Against a physician, who in the general practice of medicine, deviate from the general accepted standards of practice in the community.
4. Against a medical specialist who deviates from a nationally accepted standard of practice for specialists in that field of medicine.