Sharpe v. St. Luke's Hospital

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• holding that a hospital that contracts with an employer to collect samples for drug testing owes a duty of care to the employee undergoing the test
• recognizing an employer's duty of reasonable care owed to an employee in the collection and handling of urine specimen for drug testing
• holding under Pennsylvania law that a hospital that collected drug- testing samples under contract with an employer owed a negligence duty 13 to an employee who submitted samples
• finding that hospital which had collected an employee’s urine sample for drug testing pursuant to a contract with her employer owed the employee a duty of reasonable care in collecting and handling her specimen
• finding hospital owed employee a duty of reasonable care in collecting and handling urine specimen
• defendant hospital was in the best position to prevent negligent collection and handling of urine sample

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