Gregg v. National Medical Health Care Services, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plaintiff must prove a causal relationship between defendant’s actions or omissions and the death
• upholding summary judgment for hospital because expert medical opinion that hospital substandard for not adopting certain rules failed to state that this failure proximately caused patient’s death
• establishing a test for actual agency and applying it in an employer- employee analysis
• expert medical testimony 4 required to establish proximate cause unless a causal relationship is readily apparent to the 5 trier of fact.
• ordinarily, expert medical testimony required to make prima facie case of medical malpractice

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