Legal Opinion
Leavitt v. Brockton Hospital, Inc.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 9, 2009PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMarshall, C.J.
The plaintiff, Dean Leavitt, is a police officer for the town of Whitman. While on duty on November 1, 2004, he responded to an emergency report of a pedestrian-automobile accident. On his way to the scene of the reported accident, Lea-vitt’s police cruiser was hit by another vehicle.2 Leavitt was seriously and permanently injured. It subsequently was determined that the pedestrian involved in the accident to which Leavitt was responding had earlier that day undergone a colonoscopy at the Brockton Hospital, Inc. (hospital); the patient was struck by a vehicle while walking home from the…
2Cases cited36 opinions
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- Mullins v. Pine Manor CollegeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1983
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