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· 4/29/1986

Hector v. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Citations

  • 180 Cal. App. 3d 493
  • 225 Cal. Rptr. 595
  • 1986 Cal. App. LEXIS 1523

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a hospital could not be held strictly liable for furnishing an allegedly defective pacemaker, since the hospital was not a seller of pacemakers [product], but a provider of services
  • holding that implanting a defective pacemaker was a service despite the device's defect
  • hospital was not product seller of pace- maker but provider of medical services
  • strict liability not applied to hospital for defective pacemaker
  • strict liability not applied to hospital for defective pacemaker
  • hospital not strictly liable for defective pacemaker

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Judges: Spencer

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