Sutherland v. Monongahela Valley Hospital

How courts have described this case

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

• applying Hamil and citing Mitzelfelt with approval in holding “plaintiff must only introduce evidence that a defendant’s negligent act or omission increased the risk of harm, and that the harm was . . . sustained”
• “Vicarious liability is not a cause of action; it is a mechanism to impose liability on an employer for the acts of an employee within the scope of employment.”
• refusing to impose corporate liability on a physician’s out-patient office
• no corporate negligence liability for physician’s office

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).