Rossi v. Oxley

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• holding that “[w]ithout the element of mutual control, no joint venture can exist
• holding that there was no joint venture as a matter of law between physicians who agreed to be “on-call” for one another at a hospital in the absence of evidence that the physicians controlled each other’s professional judgment in the treatment of patients
• holding, as a matter of law, that joint venture did not exist between doctors subject to an “on-call agreement” absent evidence that the doctors controlled one another’s professional judgment in treating the plaintiff
• noting that when a patient is treated by her own doctor but also by an on-call hospital doctor, the “patient may look to her own doctor for liability when the independent negligent acts of both doctors cause [the patient’s] indivisible injury”
• on-call arrangements without more do not create joint venture between attending and cover physician as a matter of public policy
• on-call arrangements without more do not create joint venture between attending and cover physician as a matter of public policy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).