breach of duty
Obligation left unmet
A breach of duty is a failure to meet an obligation one has accepted or been assigned.
The phrase appears most often in legal contexts, where professionals or fiduciaries fail to uphold standards of care: The doctor's breach of duty resulted in the patient's injury.
It also applies to employment, contracts, or any relationship where one party owes another a specific responsibility.
- causationProduction of effects
- negligenceFailure to exercise care
- reasonable personSomeone exercising sound judgment
- medical malpracticeSubstandard care causing injury
- professional misconductEthics breach at work
foreseeability · accountability · damages · legal liability · liability · tort law · civil lawsuit · dereliction · omission · financial fraud · ethics · broken promise · restitution · carelessness · sworn · reckless · abandonment · harm
- wrongdoingmisconduct, crime, sabotage, crimes, misbehavior
- criminal lawcrime, felony, misdemeanor, murder, robbery
- corporate crimescorporate fraud, securities fraud, insider trading, price fixing, embezzlement
- malpracticemalpractice, medical malpractice, legal malpractice, malpractice insurance, professional negligence
- medical lawmalpractice, medical liability, informed consent, medical licensing, medical negligence
- military offensesdesertion, insubordination, mutiny, AWOL, absence without leave
breach of dutycompliance
Adhering to requirements
due diligence · reasonable care · standard of care · good faith · following through
breach of dutyfidelity
Loyalty or exactness
faithfulness · loyalty · trustworthiness · conscientiousness · integrity