Schenck v. Living Centers-East, Inc.

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• concluding that despite the typical vulnerability of nursing home patients, it “requires factual development to determine if in this case [a] fiduciary duty was created”
• distinguishing between an action for tort, which has a one-year prescription period, and an action for breach of contract, which has a ten-year prescription period
• denying summary judgment because factual development needed to determine if a fiduciary duty existed between a nursing home and its resident

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).