Thompson v. Mercy Hospital

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• concluding no charitable immunity where the hospital derived only a small fraction of its revenues from charitable donations and its survival did not depend on charitable sources
• “The doctrine of charitable immunity is a creation of the common law. Except for one significant restriction imposed by [section 158], its applicability in Maine is controlled entirely by the precedents of this Court”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).