Lyon v. Hasbro Industries, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that an ambulance company’s determination of which equipment was necessary and precautionary to meet the needs of a patient is inherently one of medical judgment
• finding that failure of the ambulance company to properly maintain the ambulance was an action of ordinary negligence, while the determination of what equipment was appropriate to meet the needs of a patient was an action of healing arts malpractice
• the plaintiff must comply with section 2 — 622 even if the plaintiff can prove his or her case at a trial without an expert
• failure of an ambulance service to provide appropriate medical equipment was malpractice because the decision about which equipment was necessary for someone in plaintiff’s condition involved medical judgment
• the plaintiff must comply with section 2-622 even if the plaintiff can prove his or her case at a trial without an expert
• ambulance drivers’ “determination of which equipment is necessary *** is inherently one of medical judgment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).