Keene v. Wiggins

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that physician retained by employer to conduct an IME of an injured employee had a duty of care to prepare the report for the employer, not the employee
• in medical malpractice cases, no doctor-patient relationship exists between an employee and the doctor who examines the employee for the benefit of the employer
• in medical malpractice cases, no doctor-patient relationship exists between an employee and the doctor who examines the employee for the benefit of the employer
• a doctor is not necessarily required to exercise the same degree of skill toward every person he sees; the duty owed varies with the relationship between the parties

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).