Behrens v. Raleigh Hills Hospital, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that if plaintiff was able to adduce the necessary evidence at trial, she could claim punitive damages without formal amendment to the pleadings
• noting that the statute did not limit recovery to pecuniary loss
• allowing an amended pleading because the amendment relied on a different legal characterization of the offense but did not refer to \new or different acts of misconduct\
• “Even the setting forth of ‘an additional ground of negligence as the cause of the same injury’ is not a new cause of action.” (citation omitted)
• \Even the setting forth of 'an additional ground of negligence as the cause of the same injury' is not a new cause of action.\ (citation omitted)

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