Tomfohr v. Mayo Foundation

How courts have described this case

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

• a hospital voluntarily undertakes the duty to protect the patient from self-inflicted injury, it had assumed a duty to exercise reasonable care to prevent the event.
• attempted suicide committed by mentally ill patient in locked hospital ward
• rejection of comparative negligence defense admittedly limited to the type of factual situation presented by that case, to wit, an attempted suicide committed by a mentally ill patient admitted to locked hospital ward where the medical staff was aware of suicidal ideations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).