Legal Responsibilities in Healthcare and Equipment Safety

The standard of reasonable care assumes that an individual is neither exceptionally skillful nor extraordinarily cautious but is a person of reasonable and ordinary prudence.

• True

• False

If a health care provider breaches a duty to exercise reasonable care, then they are legally liable for an injury even if there is no reasonable connection between the failure to use reasonable care and the injury suffered.

• True

• False

Manufacturers of all types of athletic and fitness equipment do not have a duty to design and produce equipment that will not cause injury as long as it is used as intended.

• True

• False

Because of the high cost of medical care, every athlete should be covered by appropriate insurance policies that maximize the benefits should injury occur.

• True

• False

Any modifications or alterations to equipment such as drilling a hole or adding a strap will nullify the manufacturers' liability should an injury occur when a person is wearing that equipment.

• True

• False

Because of the amount of litigation for alleged negligence, all professionals involved with the sports program must be fully protected by personal liability insurance.

• True

• False

The Affordable Care Act mandates the availability of affordable health care insurance for every American and includes comprehensive health insurance reforms designed to eliminate some of the worst practices of insurance companies and to essentially put consumers back in charge of their health care.

• True

• False

Medicaid is a health insurance program for people with low incomes and limited resources and is funded by both the federal government and individual states.

• True

• False

Which of the following terms means being legally responsible for the harm one causes another person?

• Assumption of risk

• Liability

• Negligence

• Injury

Which of the following terms is defined as the failure to use ordinary or reasonable care?

• Negligence

• Liability

• assumption of risk

• torts