Self-inflicted wounds were awarded if incurred 'in the heat of battle, and not involving gross negligence.'

It is the very rare plaintiff who wins a multimillion-dollar suit, and some of those cases do not even involve proved negligence.

But most lawsuits are against doctors who did nothing wrong; the cases involve human tragedy but not medical negligence.

Other situations may involve actual negligence or faulty procedures, such as when pharmacotherapists produce handwritten prescriptions for drugs.

"As a society we have to live with the fact that there will always be blood transfusion AIDS cases, though not all of them involve medical negligence."

The court codified the maintenance and cure and unseaworthiness remedies, but their ruling on remedies involving negligence did not go over well with Congress.

He said "any information involving criminal negligence" would be given to the Nassau County District Attorney, Denis Dillon.

The day after the crash, the prosecutor conducting France's judicial inquiry into whether the crash involved negligence suggested that the fire began in the No. 2 engine.

Circumstances such as those involving professional negligence may involve both torts and contracts.

The phenomenon clearly involves criminal acts and negligence by the authorities, because an additional statistic is that 50 % of the causes of these fires remain unknown.