De Sanchez v. Genoves-Andrews

Holbrook, Jr., P.J.

In this appeal on remand from the Supreme Court, we have been directed to reconsider our earlier opinion in light of several recent pronouncements of the higher court on issues of governmental immunity. The claims as serted by plaintiffs originated in the suicide of plaintiffs’ decedent at a time that the decedent was a patient in a psychiatric hospital maintained by the state and under the psychiatric care of Dr. Genoves-Andrews. Separate suits were brought in the Court of Claims against the Department of Mental Health and in circuit court against Genoves-Andrews.

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