Hill v. Hospital Authority

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that, in regards to a no-guarantee instruction similar to the one at issue here, “[t]he language of the charge is in accord with the general principles of negligence law that the occurrence of an unfortunate event is not sufficient to authorize an inference of negligence”
• appellate courts will reverse a trial court’s decision only for a manifest abuse of discretion
• principle applied to approve charge that physician need not remain at patient’s bedside, but may assume that others employed by hospital are competent to carry out orders
• potential jurors whose family members were patients of the defendant doctor need not be excused for cause as long as they stated they could decide the case without bias
• potential jurors whose family members were patients of the defendant doctor need not be excused for cause as long as they stated they could decide the case without bias
• potential jurors whose family members were patients of the defendant doctor need not be excused for cause as long as they stated they could decide the case without bias

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).