Texas PJC Malpractice 2022

Subject Index

Income taxes, instruction on whether damages are subject to, 80.2, 81.2, 82.2, 83.2 Incompetence as issue in determining validity of disclosure instrument, 51.14 Independent contractor physician, 50.2 Independent contractor, right of control of premises, 66.3 Inferential rebuttal act of God, 65.8 for borrowed employee, 52.2 disjunctive submission of borrowed employee not appropriate as, 52.3 emergency as, 65.9 general employer’s asserting borrowed employee theory as, 52.2 instructions replace questions, Introduction (4)(c) new and independent cause as, 50.4, 60.2, 65.5, 70.3 sole proximate cause as, 50.5, 60.3, 65.6 unavoidable accident as, 65.7 Informed consent. See Consent Inheritance, loss of, 81.3–81.6 Injury bystander, 80.12 to child, elderly individual, or disabled individual as ground for joint and several liability, 72.8 as ground for removing exemplary damages limitation, 85.11 disputed, 80.3 personal, damages for ( see Damages, personal injury) “Injury” or “occurrence,” use of, 51.1, 61.1, 66.1, 71.1, 80.3 “Injury,” use of, 51.1, 61.1, 66.1, 71.1, 80.3, 80.8 Instructions to jury generally, Introduction (4)(c)–(e)

in premises liability, 66.8, 66.9

H Health care liability claim definition of, 80.9, 81.7, 82.4 emergency care and emergency medical care, 51.18 limitations for, 50.8 Health care personnel degree of care for, 50.3 negligence of, 51.3 Hospital agency relationship with physician, 50.2, 52.4 degree of care for, 50.2 emergency care liability, 51.18A emergency medical care liability, 51.18B government, 50.2 independent contractor relationship of physician with, 50.2 malicious credentialing claim against, 51.19 negligence of, 51.3 policies and procedures, liability for, 50.2 Household services, loss of, 80.4 Hypothetical examples, Introduction (4)(g) I “If any,” use of, 80.3 Illiteracy, as issue in determining validity of disclosure instrument, 51.14 Implied warranty disclaimed, 71.9–71.11 Impure product. See Manufacturing defect; Product defect Inadequate warnings or instructions, 71.5, 71.7. See also Warnings or instructions

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