Knisely v. Central Vermont Hospital

How courts have described this case

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• holding that even if contractor, providing preventative maintenance of patient care equipment, negligently performed its duties of testing hospital’s air quality for waste anesthetic gas, this did not transform contractor’s obligations into duty to maintain safe premises
• concluding hospital not entitled to indemnification from contractor where it had a nondelegable duty to provide safe work environment and violation of duty was not primary fault of contractor
• concluding hospital not entitled to indemnification from contractor where it had a nondelegable duty to provide safe work environment and violation of duty was not primary fault of contractor
• finding that a hospital has a nondelegable duty to provide a safe workplace
• implied indemnification limited to parties whose conduct occurred “without active fault”
• discussing a hospital’s non-delegable duty to provide a safe workplace

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).