· 9/21/1994
Underwood v. HCA Health Services of Tennessee, Inc.
Citations
- 892 S.W.2d 423
- 1994 Tenn. App. LEXIS 531
How courts have described this case
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- holding that res ipsa loquitur “permits a fact-finder to infer that a defendant was negligent when the circumstances of the injury would cause a reasonable person to conclude that the injury would not have oc curred had it not been for the defendant’s negligence”
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Judges: Koch, Todd, Lewis
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