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Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators
Posted by: Jim Mazerat (IP Logged)
Date: February 26, 2007 09:42PM

For anyone that is interested this is the definition of the Standard of Care from the Black's Law Dictionary. It appears to me the Standard of Care is more of a consept as considered by the Law, It does not address a specific document or set of documents but more relies on the person's actions in relationship to the actions of others within the same profession.

The standard of care is the degree of care that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in the circumstance in question. In negligence law if a person's conduct falls below such standards, he may be liable in damages for injuries or damages resulting from his conduct. In professional malpractice cases, a standard of care is applied to measure the competence as well of the degree of care shown by the professional's actions. A traditional standard for a practitioner is to "exercise the average degree of skill, care, and diligence exercised by members of the same profession (or specialty within that profession), practicing in the same or a similar locality in light of the present state of the profession.

It is well documented that the medical profession has multiple standards of care for the treatment of a disease. Could not the fire investigation profession also have multiple standards of care?



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  Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 2050 Jim Mazerat 02/26/2007 03:25PM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 1204 John J. Lentini, CFEI 02/26/2007 08:49PM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 1039 Jim Mazerat 02/27/2007 03:32PM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 1063 Jim Mazerat 02/26/2007 09:19PM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 1246 Jim Mazerat 02/26/2007 09:42PM
  A misleading comment 1112 PMK140 02/27/2007 01:37PM
  Re: A misleading comment 1115 Jim Mazerat 02/27/2007 03:10PM
  Re: A misleading comment 1129 PMK140 02/27/2007 04:57PM
  Re: A misleading comment 1124 Jim Mazerat 02/27/2007 06:15PM
  Re: A misleading comment 1085 SJAvato 02/27/2007 07:16PM
  Re: A misleading comment Answer ot Steve's question. 1165 PMK140 02/28/2007 07:59PM
  Re: A misleading comment Answer ot Steve's question. 974 SJAvato 03/01/2007 12:50PM
  Re: A misleading comment 990 Jim Mazerat 03/01/2007 06:31PM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 1081 Jim Mazerat 02/28/2007 11:00AM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 996 Gerald Hurst 02/28/2007 11:35AM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 986 MIJ 02/28/2007 02:13PM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 1022 Jim Mazerat 02/28/2007 04:15PM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 968 Gerald Hurst 02/28/2007 05:34PM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 1122 Jim Mazerat 02/28/2007 06:10PM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 991 PMK140 02/28/2007 06:08PM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 1038 Jim Mazerat 02/28/2007 06:59PM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 951 PMK140 02/28/2007 08:10PM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 1587 Jim Mazerat 02/28/2007 09:07PM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 1483 John J. Lentini, CFEI 02/28/2007 10:29PM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 979 Jim Mazerat 03/01/2007 10:19AM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 973 Jim Mazerat 03/01/2007 10:59AM
  Re: Access to cases on the standard of care www.dauberttracker.com 1184 John J. Lentini, CFEI 03/02/2007 09:14AM
  Re: Access to cases on the standard of care www.dauberttracker.com 925 Jim Mazerat 03/02/2007 09:38AM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 997 Jim Mazerat 02/28/2007 09:35PM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 1018 Jim Mazerat 02/28/2007 09:44PM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 1066 PMK140 02/28/2007 10:14PM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 1073 Jim Mazerat 02/28/2007 11:03PM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 1092 PMK140 02/28/2007 11:17PM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 1230 Jim Mazerat 03/01/2007 10:17AM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 938 PMK140 03/01/2007 11:32AM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 1163 Jim Mazerat 03/01/2007 01:11PM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 1007 Jim Mazerat 03/01/2007 01:19PM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 1313 Jim Mazerat 02/28/2007 04:48PM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 967 MIJ 02/28/2007 07:03PM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 1004 Jim Mazerat 02/28/2007 09:08PM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 1021 ssklar 03/01/2007 06:20PM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 1103 Jim Mazerat 03/01/2007 06:35PM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 934 Jim Mazerat 03/01/2007 06:38PM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 1570 Tony La Palio 03/02/2007 06:49PM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 898 Jim Mazerat 03/02/2007 07:21PM
  Re: Standard of Care Requirements for Fire Investigators 1002 Chris Bloom, CJBFireConsultant 03/05/2007 03:42AM


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