Hoffman v. Memorial Osteopathic Hospital

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that jury could find intentional infliction of emotional distress where emergency room physician ignored the pleas for help of a patient suffering from a neurological disease who had fallen to the floor and was allowed to remain there for more than one hour
• “If the jury charge is fundamentally erroneous or has a tendency to mislead or confuse rather than to clarify the issues, a new trial will be required so long as that portion of the charge in question might have been responsible for the verdict.”
• defendant's wealth is relevant to set punitive damages
• defendant’s wealth is relevant to set punitive damages
• denial of medical treatment in emergency room
• failure to provide treatment at hospital emergency room

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).