Hardi v. Mezzanotte

How courts have described this case

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

• holding when the physician is at the stage where he is providing a diagnosis and advice for the patient’s medical care, the patient cannot be expected to question him or to know the doctor’s actions might be negligent and result in harm to the patient
• but allowing defendant to adduce evidence of the amount paid to satisfy medical bills
• “[r]egardless of any broad language in the opinion in Moorhead, that case involved medical services provided by the tortfeasor itself so that an application of the collateral source rule would have required, in effect, double payment”
• distinguishing earlier case on that basis

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).