Legal Opinion
Kippenhan v. Chaulk Services, Inc.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided August 4, 1998PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, C.J.
On June 5, 1992, Richard Cicchese and Paul Reynolds, employees of the defendant Chaulk Services, Inc. (Chaulk), transported the plaintiff George Kippenhan (Kippen-han) by ambulance from New England Baptist Hospital to New England Deaconess Hospital for radiation therapy. While they were trying to put Kippenhan in the ambulance, the ambulance stretcher, manufactured by the defendant Femo-Washington, Inc. (Ferno), collapsed. Kippenhan fell and allegedly was injured.
The plaintiffs claim that the fall was caused by the negligence of Chaulk and its ambulance attendants and by Ferno’s negligence…
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