Lee v. GNLV CORP.

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• concluding that GNLV's duty was to \take reasonable affirmative steps to aid the party in peril\
• deciding that a restaurant owed a duty to come to the aid of its patrons
• holding that the duty to take reasonable steps to render first aid did not include performing the “Heimlich maneuver” on a restaurant patron who was choking
• holding that the duty to take reasonable steps to render first aid did not include performing the “Heimlich maneuver” on a restaurant patron who was choking
• concluding that “summoning medical assistance within a reasonable time” satisfied restaurateur’s affirmative duty to exercise reasonable care in response to choking patron and rejecting argument that employees had duty to administer Heimlich maneuver themselves
• noting that foreseeability, duty, proximate cause, and reasonableness are generally questions of fact for a jury

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