· 12/20/2001
Estate of Amos v. Vanderbilt University
Citations
- 62 S.W.3d 133
- 2001 Tenn. LEXIS 860
How courts have described this case
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- holding that hospital owed duty of care to former patient and to' general public to warn former patient of her possible exposure to HIV
- holding that hospital owed duty of care to former patient and to general public to warn former patient of her possible exposure to HIV
- holding that a hospital owed a duty to warn a former patient of her possible exposure to the HIV virus and that the patient’s husband could recover damages against the hospital
- reinstating father’s jury award in wrongful-birth action for negligent transmission of HIV virus to mother leading to death of their child exposed in utero
- hospital owed duty of care to the public to warn patient of her possible exposure to human immunodeficiency virus
- future husband and daughter of patient who was not informed that she was at risk of contracting HIV deemed members of identifiable class for purposes of hospital's third-party liability
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Judges: Janice M. Holder
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