Funeral Services by Gregory, Inc. v. Bluefield Community Hospital

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the court would not recognize a legally compensable injury “where there is no evidence of an actual exposure” to HIV
• instructing that “in order to establish fraud, the circumstances must be clearly alleged and proved”
• instructing that “in order to establish fraud, the circumstances must be clearly alleged and proved”
• rejecting mortician’s emotional-distress claim arising from embalming of AIDS-infected corpse because mortician wore protective gear and did not injure himself during the process
• describing § 55-2-12(c) as applicable to civil actions, such as libel, defamation and false arrest, which do not survive the death of the party
• refusing to embrace a definition of battery that does not require \actual physical impairment\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).