Eckhardt v. Charter Hospital of Albuquerque, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “the doctrine of corporate negligence may impose liability on a hospital for the negligent granting of staff privileges or the negligent supervision of treatment”
• allowing action in tort for breach of psychological counselor's duty of confidentiality, the sources of such duty being both fiduciary relationship and state statutes
• “[I]t is beyond question in New Mexico that a hospital owes an independent duty of care to patients at the hospital.”
• “To be liable for punitive damages, a wrongdoer must have some culpable mental state, and the wrongdoer’s conduct must rise to a willful, wanton, malicious, reckless, oppressive, or fraudulent level.”
• “A trial court may inform jurors about the reason for a co-defendant’s absence if this absence presents a source of confusion, especially when the parties suggest no al-temative means of clearing up the confusion.”
• non-physician mental health therapists owed duty of confidentiality to patient

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).