FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

In professional negligence cases, it is negligent for the service provider to fail to comply with what’s called “the standard of care.” The standard of care that a professional must follow is to provide the same degree of care or service that a reasonably prudent  professional acting in the same or similar circumstances would provide. A specialist or one who holds  him or herself out as a specialist is generally held to the standard of care that a reasonably prudent professional of the same specialty would exercise acting in the same or similar circumstances.