| Abstract [eng] |
The Master thesis provides an overview of historical origins of the medical professional liability, compensation of non-material harm, insurance of civil liability of medical employees, as well as the current legal regulation of the field and the peculiarities of its application in Lithuania. A detailed analysis of the compensation of harm, caused by a doctor to a patient, with the application of the doctor’s professional civil liability, is provided, highlighting theoretical and practical problems. A special attention is accorded to the compensation for non-material harm, since the biggest claims of patients are usually related to this kind of harm. Possibilities of compensating non-material harm are considered, in terms of size and persons, possessing the right to such compensation. The thesis highlights singularities of medical professional civil liability, analyses the practice of Lithuanian courts of law in cases involving injuries to patients. In the current context of the Lithuanian healthcare system, the position of the Lithuanian Supreme Court in relation to the standard of maximum effort, applied to doctors, is evaluated. Analysis of insurance of personal healthcare institutions, as an alternative method of compensating harm done to the patient, is given an important place in the thesis. The study presents peculiarities and shortcomings of the obligatory insurance of medical employees, examines the problems of implementing such system in Lithuania, its relation to voluntary insurance of medical employees. The author proposes ways which could help implement the obligatory insurance of personal healthcare institutions in Lithuania. |
