Son v. Ashland Community Healthcare Services

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing professional malpractice as “a form of negligence” and therefore a context in which a comparative-fault defense may be raised
• “[T]he plaintiff’s negligent conduct must relate and contribute to the negligent treatment, because it is the negligent treatment that causes the injury that is at issue.”
• “[A]s a matter of law, conduct that merely creates the need for medical treatment cannot cause the type of harm at issue in medical malpractice cases—the injury resulting from the malpractice.” (Emphasis added.)
• first emphasis added; second empha- sis in original; internal quotation marks omitted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).