Robinson v. Mount Logan Clinic, LLC

DURRANT, Justice:

INTRODUCTION

T1 In this case we are called upon to decide whether section 78-14a-102(1) of the Utah Code 1 shields from lability a therapist who erroneously informs a police officer that a client is not armed when the client is in fact armed. That section provides as follows: "A therapist has no duty to warn or take precautions to provide protection from any violent behavior of his client or patient, except when that client or patient communicated to the therapist an actual threat of physical violence against a clearly identified or reasonably identifiable victim." 2 Because…