Johnson Ex Rel. Estate of Johnson v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• majority rule is that “hospitals have no duty to obtain informed consent for a procedure ordered by a non-employee physician and performed by hospital employees”
• hospital not required to inform patient regarding “matters that lie at the heart of the doctor-patient relationship”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).