· 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
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- 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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