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ed in the initial stages.

The government should try increasing the healthcare funds to reduce the incidence of adverse happenings and therefore reduce the potential number of victims. Some of the various factors which contribute to the occurrence of adverse events are Underfunding of Public healthcare system and cost saving methods adopted by the private hospitals for greater profits.

The government has to take responsibilities for the rising number of medical negligence and the adverse medical events and has to take necessary actions on the physicians who are responsible.

The Civil Liability Act in NSW has listed the following:-

claims for “general damages for pain and agony” being restricted to not more than $350,000.00

patients cannot make any claim regarding commendable or penalizing damages

a scale dealing with the importance of claims for non fiscal loss damages for pain and agony to the result of no sting and suffering damages is provided for cases with undying mutilation less than 15%.

claims for revival of past and future economic loss eg:loss of salary, is restricted

claims for forthcoming damages items would be discounted by 5%

no interest will be given back for non economic loss

claims for the cost of forthcoming domestic care restricted and future medical expenses discounted by 5%

CASE AGAINST THE CELLULAR COMPANY

Tracy Williamson went to court and sued $300000 against the acacia Mortgage corporation for advertising low home mortgage rates through sending her a text message. Tracy argued that the message violated the rules of the TCPA which strongly restricted the private organizations from advertising through cellular phones without the consent of the phone holder.

ANTI CYBER SQUATTING CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT

John Zuccarini, a notorious cyber squatter lost an ACPA lawsuit in October of 2000, when the court awarded the claimant legal damages of $500,000 for each of five domain names that were obtained in bad faith and that were confusingly similar to the claimant's brand name. The court also ordered Mr. Zuccarini to pay lawyers' fees of more than $30,000.

CONCLUSION

So many acts have been made, rights have been given to the consumers, programmes are being conducted to uplift the condition of the consumers in the existing market dominated by sellers, and still the consumers are exploited in many ways by the manufacturers and producers. Consumers are still not aware about the existing organizations that can help them to come out from their shock and help them fight against the selfish and greedy sellers. Especially in a country like India where rural population exceeds urban with a high percentage, people are illiterate and have no idea what they are going through and how can they help themselves. On top of that medical field, an area where the even the educated group is helpless and have no knowledge about the subject hence, it is very easy for the manipulative and smart doctors to drain patients’ money by way of irrelevant and costly tests, not diagnosing the problem in just one meeting to make some more money through consultation charges for many more times and some hospitals in India even .

SUGGESTIONS

1. The consumers have to collect a bill and the warranty car