Fotia v. Palmetto Behavioral Health

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that “the intent of [EMTALA] is to allow private individuals harmed by EMTALA violations to sue the hospitals that caused the harm”
• “Instead of requiring the court to ‘convert’ Plaintiffs EMTALA cause of action into an analogous state law claim, the statute simply specifies that the damages allowed for EMTALA violations are those damages available in personal injury claims in [the state].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).