Legal Opinion
Healthfirst v. Martha Washington Hospital (In Re Martha Washington Hospital)
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided August 3, 1993No. 90 B 17087, Appeal No. 92 C 5317PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
LINDBERG, District Judge.
On March 21, 1989, appellant Healthfirst treated Miguel Rodriguez (“Rodriguez”) as an emergency patient. On April 14, 1989, Rodriguez was admitted to debtor-appellee Martha Washington Hospital (“Martha Washington”) where he subsequently died. The administrator of Rodriguez’s estate subsequently filed a medical malpractice action against Healthfirst on March 22, 1991. Healthfirst sought to assert a contribution claim against Martha Washington but the hospital had filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition on or about September 18, 1990 and an…
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