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· 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

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

  • 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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