title: Medical negligence based on bad faith, breach of contract, or mental anguish.
abstract: Financial recovery owing to breach of contract is restricted to the pecuniary amount lost because of failure to perform on the stipulated contract. With the acquisition of newer knowledge, attorneys are now utilizing the weapon of contractual failure as applied to medical negligence. The impetus to this new weapon for the plaintiff has accrued because of the favorable verdicts rendered from positive decisions based upon bad faith.
mesh_terms: D005554:Forensic Medicine; D006801:Humans; D007351:Insurance, Liability; D008318:Malpractice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000639:trends; D010344:Patient Advocacy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000209:etiology; D014481:United States