Pa. Court Imposes Corporate Liability Upon Nursing Homes

A unanimous Pennsylvania Superior Court panel has ruled that a nursing home can be held corporately liable for its actions. Writing that such liability is already imposed on hospitals, health maintenance organizations and medical professional corporations, the panel held that nursing homes were similar to those organizations in that they provide “comprehensive and continual physical care.” They are not, the court said, like a physician’s outpatient office, which is not susceptible to corporate liability claims.

View full post on Law.com – Newswire

, , , , , ,

Leave a Reply

XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

Get Adobe Flash playerPlugin by wpburn.com wordpress themes
SEO Powered by Platinum SEO from Techblissonline
© 1992-2012 DC2NET™, Inc. All Rights Reserved