Haughton v. Canning

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming a doctor's motion for directed verdict when plaintiff could not show that the defendant doctor's sharing of medical information with other physicians amounted to a \public\ and thus wrongful disclosure
• affirming a doctor’s motion for directed verdict when plaintiff could not show that the defendant doctor’s sharing of medical information with other physicians amounted to a “public” and thus wrongful disclosure
• a jury charge “must not be argumentative or seek an expression of opinion on the part of the court”
• “Three elements are essential to establish a medical malpractice claim: the doctor’s duty to his patient; the doctor’s breach of that duty through the failure to exercise the requisite degree of skill and care; and an injury proximately caused by the doctor’s failure.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).