Hunt v. Mercy Medical Center

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that allegations that the plaintiff was “emotionally upset” and “very skeptical” were alone insufficient to establish a compensable injury on a negligence claim
• observing that, ‘‘[wjithin the field of negligence law, the rule in Maryland is that any 'physical injury’ is compensable if that injury is 'capable of objective determination' ”
• collecting cases where an expert was required due to, among other things, the passage of time between the original occurrence and subsequent physical ailments
• “[A] claim for emotional injury is less likely to succeed if the victim is the sole source of all evidence of emotional injury.”
• “The ultimate test for whether an agent is also a servant is control....”
• “[T]he patient could properly assume that the doctors and staff of [the hospital] were acting on [its] behalf…. [The patient] is not necessarily bound by the limitations that may be contained in a private contract between [the hospital] and [its physicians].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).