Perez v. Richmond

How courts have described this case

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

• providing that court must look to substance of action against health care facility to determine whether action is for professional or simple negligence
• rejecting the argument that any cause of action arising out of care provided by a health care facility is automatically one for medical malpractice
• nursing-home resident fell while nursing assistant attempted to help the resident move from her wheelchair to her bed
• moving a patient from wheelchair to bed did not involve exercise of medical judgment and therefore statute of limitation for stated ordinary negligence claim could be tolled by plaintiffs mental incompetency
• malpractice action against a nursing home

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).