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· 11/14/1961

Fournier v. Miriam Hospital

Citations

  • 175 A.2d 298
  • 93 R.I. 299
  • 1961 R.I. LEXIS 115

How courts have described this case

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  • noting that charitable immunity had been abolished judicially, except where the legislature had provided immunity to charitable hospitals
  • noting that charitable immunity had been abolished judicially, except where the legislature had provided immunity to charitable hospitals
  • “This [C]ourt * * * [has] observed that, ‘[a]lthough, in a free government, every man is entitled to an adequate legal remedy for every injury done to him, yet the form and extent of it is necessarily subject to the legislative power * * *.’”

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Judges: Condon, Roberts, Paolino, Powers

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