Morrell v. Wellstar Health System, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• “there is no independent cause of action for violation of the covenant apart from breach of an express term of the contract” (internal citation omitted)
• “there is no independent cause of action for violation of the covenant apart from breach of an express term of the contract”
• “[W]e hold that a nonprofit hospital generally has no fiduciary duty to a patient with respect to the price the hospital charges for medical care.”
• hospital did not make false or misleading statements about the amounts billed simply because chargemaster rates exceeded the reimbursement amounts paid by Medicare beneficiaries
• hospital did not make false or misleading statements about the amounts billed simply because chargemaster rates exceeded the reimbursement amounts paid by Medicare beneficiaries
• “Unjust enrichment is an equitable concept and applies when as a matter of fact there is no legal contract.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).