Law, Public Health Care System and Society, Volume 1

The Book The question how the responsibility of the private and public sector for financing medical liability claims is organized is very sensitive and a question of the perception and influence of the involved stakeholders. In the perception of many providers of health care services and their insurers there is the opinion that medical malpractice grows, or with other words: it becomes more and more infeasible in Europe. One of the reasons is the provided information in the mass media and the other the concerns of the health care providers about the reduction of the costs in the system itself, for instance in Germany. Under this impression the question of compensation of medical malpractice is extremely important for patient's confidence in the health care system. This bilingual contributions compares existing systems.