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Aggravated damages
Article source from: Genevieve Vanniasingham Aggravated damages are normally awarded to compensate for the injury to the feelings, pride or dignity of the plaintiff. They are compensatory in nature, unlike exemplary damages which are punitive. In 𝘒𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘫 𝘷 𝘔𝘤𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘩...
The Evolving Medico-Legal Landscape: Notable Medical Negligence Cases from 2024
By Jeremy Balang, Jason Lim and Dhanya Nair Article source from: https://mahwengkwai.com/medico-legal-landscape-malaysia-medical-negligence-cases-2024/ ---- The medico-legal landscape continues to evolve, and 2024 has been no exception. This year witnessed a series of...
Telemedicine takes over conventional clinic visits
While the whole world has been turned sideways due to the CoViD-19 pandemic this year, there have been some precious few positives that we can take some solace from. For one, Working From Home (WFH) as a viable business practice has now been given a lot more credit...
Working from Home Amidst Cyber Threats
Among a whole host of vulnerabilities that COVID-19 has exposed, Two elements have become very apparent, very fast for businesses trying to adopt a Work From Home (WFH) model. Firstly, the logistics of setting up the business backbone to support a WFH arrangement is...
The first thing to do is check if your insurer has a Pandemic Exclusion
Insurance is generally based on the principle of covering the few using the contribution of the many. In more professional terms, it is about spreading the risk across the whole group so that everyone pays a small amount regardless of whether they suffer the risk or...
COVID 19 – Where did you come from?
Late last year, many workers from the seafood markets in the province of Wuhan and Hubei started reporting pneumonia like symptoms that progressively worsened. This illness spread at an alarming rate and quickly became an uncontrolled epidemic. The Chinese government...
Professional Indemnity and Defensive Medicine
Mandatory MMI – Filling the Gap or Fulfilling the Need? Professional indemnity is intended to offer the confidence for trained experts to do their best work without worry of accidental repercussions. For example, a doctor attempting a risky treatment should not be...
DoctorShield Addresses APC Application Challenges
The review of the Medical Act 1971 (Akta Perubatan 1971) in 2017 brought with it some key changes, one of which is the requirement for all doctors in public and private practice to ensure that professional indemnity cover is secured as a condition of making an Annual...
The absolute support in mediation for conflict resolution
Why Mediation is Always the Best Approach In any professional indemnity context, there is bound to be occasions where there is a dispute on the extent of liability and even as to the true cause of the perceived malpractice. The most typical reaction – sensationalized...
Medical indemnity insurance – a choice or a necessity?
There was a time when bad news was broken to a patient by Doctors, the patient and their family members would accept the news as the will of God and never question or second guess the Doctor nor the establishment which treated him/her. The news, no matter how bad it...
