Van Horn v. Chambers

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a treating physician did not owe a duty to hospital employees who were killed or injured when trying to subdue a violent patient
• finding no inherent right to control in physician-patient relationship that would impose duty on physician to protect third parties from patient
• finding no inherent control in physician-patient relationship that would impose duty on physician to protect third parties from patient
• declining to impose a duty on physicians to protect third persons from acts committed by patients
• determining whether there is a legal duty is a question of law
• “The nonexistence of a duty ends the inquiry into whether negligence liability may be imposed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).