Chapter 4.F.2: Managed Care Liability

Notes: Vicarious Liability; Direct Liability for Provider Selection and Oversight

Note 5: Exclusive Enterprise Liability

On enterprise liability and managed care, see Randall R. Bovbjerg & Robert Berenson, Enterprise Liability in the Twenty-First Century, in Medical Malpractice and the U.S. Health Care System (W. Sage & R. Kersh eds., 2006); Note, 121 Harv. L. Rev. 1192 (2008); Clark C. Havighurst, Making Health Plans Accountable for the Quality of Care, 31 Ga. L. Rev. 587 (1997); William Sage, Enterprise Liability and the Emerging Managed Care Health Care System, 60 Law & Contemp. Probs. 159 (Spring 1997); K. Abraham & P. Weiler, Enterprise Medical Liability and the Choice of the Responsible Enterprise, 20 Am. J. L. & Med. 29 (1994).