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· 7/20/1992

Puritan Medical Center, Inc. v. Cashman

Citations

  • 596 N.E.2d 1004
  • 413 Mass. 167
  • 1992 Mass. LEXIS 393

How courts have described this case

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

  • ratification may be implied where corporation directors have “knowledge of such facts or circumstances as would put a reasonable person on inquiry and which would lead to full discovery”
  • ratification may be implied where corporation directors have \knowledge of such facts or circumstances as would put a reasonable person on inquiry and which would lead to full discovery\
  • breaches of fiduciary duty in context of separate lease and misappropriation of corporate opportunities
  • “Where, as in this case, a fiduciary relationship exists between plaintiff and defendant ... mere failure to reveal information may be sufficient to constitute fraudulent conduct for the purposes of G.L. c. 260, § 12.”
  • self-dealing not ratified in absence of full disclosure
  • applying Mass. G.L. c. 260, 12

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Judges: Wilkins, Abrams, Nolan, O'Connor, Greaney

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