· 10/9/1981
Juhnke v. Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society
Citations
- 634 P.2d 1132
- 6 Kan. App. 2d 744
- 1981 Kan. App. LEXIS 348
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- finding “that the trier of fact would have been fully capable of determining, without the aid of expert testimony, whether the defendant nursing home breached its duty to exercise reasonable care to avoid injury to [a] patient” assaulted by a fellow patient
- finding “that the trier of fact would have been fully capable of determining, without the aid of expert testimony, whether the defendant nursing home breached its duty to exercise reasonable care to avoid injury to [a] patient” assaulted by a fellow patient
- no expert testimony needed to establish a breach of the professional standard of care when a nursing home patient was assaulted by another patient
- guardian’s action against nursing home for negligent failure to protect ward from assault by fellow patient involved standard of care within common knowledge and experience of lay jurors and did not require expert evidence
- guardian's action against nursing home for negligent failure to protect ward from assault by fellow patient involved standard of care within common knowledge and experience of lay jurors and did not require expert evidence
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Judges: Abbott, Parks, Swinehart
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