PUBLIC LIABILITY
The public liability includes the following sections:
1 – Industrial / labour accidents
A compensation where there has been imprudence on the part of the employer originated by the lack of safety measures in the work or for any other cause and the worker has suffered can claim physical damages that can be claimed from the company that the public liability of the company insures from itself.
The industrial accidents can be claimed in the face of the civil, penal or social jurisdiction.
2 - Medical negligence
The right is had to a compensation when the prejudiced one has suffered medical negligence as a consequence of the bad one praxises of the doctor or sanitary staff in the meaning that they have operated in incorrect way in the diagnosis of an illness and has been produced a physical or psychic damage and also when it can be demonstrated that the sanitary staff has not put all means within their reach in order to that the negative result or the injury was not produced.
The health workers, equal that the rest of workers, they can commit errors, and it is then when the public liability comes into play for damages, that, obviously, as patients we do not have the duty of bearing. As a matter of fact, the medical negligence has gone to being one of the more frequent sources of public liability in these last years. The causes of this phenomenon are various, but about all them the development of a more collective consciousness is found as users of the Medicine, with rights, and not as simple administered. We do not have to bear the consequences of the medical errors.
Some of the ways that we can opt for to claim in the face of a medical negligence or medical error are: PENAL PROCESS, CIVIL PROCESS and ADMINISTRATION PROCESS.
3 - Patrimonial responsibility of the Public Administration
In case damages and harm against the town councils, the autonomic administration or that state due to its bad operation having provoked a damage body to the citizen have to be claimed.
4 - Other indemnifiable suppositions
The damages derived from the construction.
Contracts of insurances.
The attacks of animals.
The damages that have its origin in a product or defective service.
These are some of the typical suppositions, to more of the traffic accidents than you don´t have the duty of bearing, and that, therefore, has right to be compensated. But not only the individuals, the companies and, especially, the insurer companies have to face these compensations, also the Public Administration.
In general, you can claim any bodily injury.
