Nasser v. Parker

How courts have described this case

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

• finding neither physician-patient nor hospital-patient relationship sufficient to establish “special relation” that would trigger duty concerning patient’s conduct
• “taking charge” under Section 319 requires, a “higher degree of control over the patient than exists in an ordinary doctor-patient relationship or hospital-patient relationship”
• finding an ordinary doctor-patient relationship insufficient to establish that psychiatrist had taken charge of patient who caused harm to another
• doctor and hospital not liable for failure to warn victim after her assailant released from hospital
• “In determining whether one has a duty concerning the conduct of a third person, we have considered Restatement §§ 315(a) and 319 together…”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).