We don't recommend anything called No Fault Compensation, that's the recommendation, as your correspondent rightly says, of the Government.
BBC: Bristol babies inquiry chairman, Prof Ian Kennedy quizzed
The Lib Dems also favour a system of no-fault compensation to cut down on the need for costly litigation following medical errors.
The British Medical Association favours a system of no fault compensation under which damages can be paid to a patient without a doctor being blamed.
So in response to the Professor's question, I am not advocating No Fault Compensation and I wished, in a sense, that the Government were not.
BBC: Bristol babies inquiry chairman, Prof Ian Kennedy quizzed
The high court ultimately agreed with WLF that Congress mandated preemption of design defect claims when it adopted the Vaccine Act, which established a national, comprehensive, no-fault compensation program for vaccine-related injuries.
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By providing a comprehensive, no-fault compensation regime to address vaccine-relate injuries, Congress sought to protect vaccine manufacturers from the same kind of burdensome litigation that previously drove so many vaccine manufacturers from the market.
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Systems of liability, whether there are clinical negligence liability, No Fault Compensation systems or any other kind, stand in the way of openness and of being candid and honest with patients or admitting something has gone wrong.
BBC: Bristol babies inquiry chairman, Prof Ian Kennedy quizzed
No Fault Compensation merely means, as I understand it, that you replace the need to show fault with some kind of strict liability but you still have to go to court, you have to sue, you have to prove things called causation.
BBC: Bristol babies inquiry chairman, Prof Ian Kennedy quizzed
Support for these bills is growing, but we expect opposition from all the companies who don't want to pay fair compensation when, by their fault, someone on board their vessel is killed.
Ms Williams, whose family was flooded out, said that if anyone was found at fault for the flooding, the residents' association would consider legal action for compensation.
Extra compensation is available if a flight is cancelled or delayed and it is the airline's fault.
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