Chapter 1. Introduction -- PART I: JURISPRUDENTIAL PROBLEMS -- Chapter 2. Physicians and Tort Liability -- A. Economic Upheaval -- B. Inadequacies of Current Malpractice Tort Law -- C. Recasting Physicians' Duty of Care -- D. Conclusion: The Traditional Custom-Based Approach to Setting the Medical Standard of Care Should Be Abandoned, and a New Approach to Physicians' Malpractice Liability Should Be Identified -- Chapter 3. Health Plans and Tort Liability -- A. Historical Overview -- B. Growth of Liability for Health Plans
C. Challenges in Ascribing Tort Liability to Health Plans -- Chapter 4. Health Plans and Contract Liability -- A. Obstacles to Effective Contracting -- B. Consequences of Ineffective Contracting -- PART II: ADDRESSING THE PROBLEMS: RESHAPING LEGAL STANDARDS -- Chapter 5. Pinpointing the Issues -- A. Two Prospective Answers to the Jurisprudential Dilemmas -- B. The Real Dispute: Who Should Control What -- C. Who Should Control What: Seeking a Reasonable Balance -- Chapter 6. A Basic Distinction -- A. Expertise -- B. Resources -- C. Litigating Breaches of Duty: Expertise Versus Resources
Chapter 7. Reshaping Liability for Physicians -- A. Physicians and Expertise -- B. Physicians and Resources -- Chapter 8. Reshaping Liability for Health Plans: Expertise and Tort -- A. Duties of Expertise in Four Domains -- B. Reducing Corporations' Practice of Medicine -- C. Tort Litigation for Breach of Expertise Duties -- Chapter 9. Reshaping Liability for Health Plans: Resources and Contract -- A. Conditions for Effective Contracting -- B. Guidelines-Based Contracting: Choosing and Enforcing Resource Entitlements and Resource Limits
PART Ill: ASSESSING THE PROPOSED APPROACH: PROSPECTS FOR JUDICIAL ACCEPTANCE -- Chapter 10. Judicial Acceptability -- A. Physicians' Liabilities -- B. Health Plans' Liabilities: Expertise and Tort -- C. Health Plans' Liabilities: Resources and Contract -- D. Implications for Litigation -- E. Summary -- Chapter 11. Special Issues In ERISA -- A. Quality-Quantity: Paralleling The Expertise-Resource Distinction -- B. Quality-Quantity: A Flawed Distinction -- C. Fixing the Problems: ERISA and Resource Issues -- D. ERISA's Future -- Chapter 12. Reflections -- Notes -- References -- Table of Cases
Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-305) and index
