Jones v. Healthsouth Treasure Valley Hospital

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• adopting reasonable belief standard of § 2.03 of Restatement [Third] of Agency, supra
• under doctrine of apparent authority, the tort liability of an independent contractor can be imputed to the principal
• \[A] hospital may be found vicariously liable ... for the negligence of independent personnel assigned by the hospital to perform support services.\ (emphasis added)
• “We have only required that a person be ‘justified in believing’ the agent was acting pursuant to existing authority, rather than relying on the agent’s services, in order to establish apparent authority.”
• reviewing the definition of apparent authority

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