· 10/16/1986
Lawler v. Eugene Wuesthoff Memorial Hosp.
Citations
- 497 So. 2d 1261
How courts have described this case
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- holding that a breach of a hospital's bylaws in terminating a doctor's staff privilege was a sufficient basis for a breach of contract claim
- finding that the interference was only indirect where a physician’s client relationships were consequentially interfered with by a hospital’s termination of the physician’s privileges
- finding that the interference was only indirect where a physician’s client relationships were consequentially interfered with by a hospital’s termination of the physician’s privileges
- hospital bylaws binding and enforceable contract between hospital and physicians privileged to practice in hospital
- no direct interference where defendant hospital terminated a doctor’s staff privileges thereby damaging the doctor’s relations with his patients and fellow doctors
- \Breach of a Hospital's By-Laws in terminating a doctor's staff privileges is a sufficient basis upon which to grant compensatory as well as injunctive relief.\
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