SM Liability and Insurance

If an athlete decides that they are not mentally ready for a contest, after they are cleared who can over rule their decision?

• Coach

• Parent

• Team Doctor

• No one

Liability is when _____________

• You are legally responsible for the harm one causes to another person.

• There is a failure to use ordinary or reasonable care

• There is a failure to perform your legal duty

• You perform an action that you are not legally allowed to perform

If you fail to refer an athlete who has a concussion, and they end up suffering a subdural hematoma, what are you guilty of?

• Liability

• Malfeasance

• Nonfeasance

• Negligence

If you perform a thoracotomy on the sidelines as an ATC what are you going to be found guilty of?

• Liability

• Malfeasance

• Negligence

• Nonfeasance

If you know how to perform a test to see if an athlete tore their ACL, and you perform that test incorrectly and it ends in a dislocated knee; what are you going to be guilty of?

• Liability

• Negligence

• Misfeasance

• Malfeasance

Medical statue of limitations in Louisiana.

• 1

• 3

• 5

• 7

Who is liable if a softball chest guard causes a heart attack due to it being too tight or incorrectly made?

• Coach

• Player

• Parent

• Company who made the equipment

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS2-3

A legal wrong committed against the person or property of another.

• Tort

• Negligence

• Lawsuit

• Malfeasance

Failing to perform a legal duty.

• Negligence

• Nonfeasance

• Malfeasance

• Misfeasance

Committing an act not legally allowed to perform.

• Negligence

• Nonfeasance

• Malfeasance

• Misfeasance