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· 12/5/2001

Hinckley v. Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners

Citations

  • 801 So. 2d 193
  • 2001 WL 1538879

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  • holding special relationship existed between caregiver and developmentally disabled individual
  • holding special relationship existed between caregiver and developmentally disabled individual
  • county owed the plaintiff's developmentally disabled daughter a duty of care to provide safe transportation once it undertook to supply her with such services
  • county owed the plaintiffs developmentally disabled daughter a duty of care to provide safe transportation once it undertook to supply her with such services
  • although the county had a special relationship with developmentally disabled individuals who required public transportation, the county was not responsible for the acts of the third-party independent contract who provided transportation services

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Judges: Warner

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