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· 2/20/1946

In re Plan of Readjustment of the Rights of the Holders of Investments in a Mortgage Covering Premises 310 Riverside Boulevard

Citations

  • 270 A.D. 823

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  • holding that a hospital was not vicariously liable for sexual abuse by an orderly
  • holding that employee’s alleged sexual abuse of patient constituted “departure from his duties for solely personal motives unrelated to the furtherance of the [employer’s] business” and thus did not provide basis for recovery against hospital under doctrine of respondeat superior
  • determining that a hospital employee who was accused of sexually abusing a patient at the hospital “departed from his [job] duties for solely personal motives unrelated to the furtherance of the [h]ospital’s business”
  • “Assuming plaintiffs allegations of sexual abuse are true, it is clear that the employee here departed from his duties for solely personal motives unrelated to the furtherance of the Hospital’s business.”
  • finding hospital orderly tasked with bathing the plaintiff “departed from his duties for solely personal motives unrelated to the furtherance of the Hospital's business” when he sexually abused plaintiff
  • “Assuming plaintiff’s allegations of sexual abuse are true, it is clear that the employee here departed from his duties for solely personal motives unrelated to the furtherance of the [defendant’s] business.”

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