Vest v. St. Albans Psychiatric Hospital, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding notice requirement of Virginia’s statute on medical malpractice review panels to be a procedural rule
• “[T]he substantive rights between the parties are determined by the law of the place of injury”
• “In tort cases, West Virginia courts apply the traditional choice-of-law rule, lex loci delicti; that is, the substantive rights between the parties are determined by the law of the place of injury.”
• \[L]oss of consortium\ is a \derivative claim\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).