State v. Simpson

Syllabus

This appeal presents the question of whether a hospital, by virtue of either the language in its admission contract or an alleged special relationship with its patients, owes a duty to ensure a doctor practicing at the hospital maintains malpractice insurance coverage. Because we hold under these specific facts that Laurens County Health Care System and its successor Greenville Health System (collectively, Hospital) had no such duty to Appellants in contract or tort, we affirm the trial court's grant of summary judgment to Hospital.