Legal Opinion
Almeida v. Radovsky
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided April 1, 1986No. 83-40-AppealPublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BEVILACQUA, Chief Justice.
This is a medical-malpractice and wrongful-death action against two Massachusetts physicians. The case appears before us on the plaintiff’s appeal from a Superior Court judgment granting the defendants’ motions to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction.
From 1964 through 1979, defendant doctors treated plaintiff’s decedent, Louise Al-meida, in Fall River, Massachusetts. She traveled to Massachusetts for this medical treatment from her Rhode Island home. The plaintiff alleges that decedent was treated negligently and underwent unnecessary torment, pain,…
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