Bridge v. Carver

In this medical malpractice action, plaintiffs appeal from judgments entered for defendants 1 following a trial to the court based on stipulated facts. Plaintiffs make four assignments of error. We write only to address one argument that pervades the first three assignments of error. Plaintiffs concede that those assignments raise the same ultimate legal question: whether defendant Ronald E. Carver, M.D. (Carver), acted as an actual agent for defendant Deschutes County (the county) when he provided prenatal services to plaintiff Joyan Bridge (Bridge) on July 15, 1992, and, therefore, was…