Shortell v. Cavanagh

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “those who promulgate statutes ... do not intend to promulgate statutes . . . that lead to absurd consequences or bizarre results” [internal quotation marks omitted]
• “if an expert is needed to establish the standard of care, a fortiori, an opinion letter is required from a similar health care provider”
• ‘‘[u]nlike a medical malpractice claim, a claim for lack of informed consent is determined by a lay standard of materiality, rather than an expert medical standard of care [that] guides the trier of fact in its determination’’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).