K.L. v. Riverside Medical Center

OPINION

DAVIES, Judge.

Patient challenges the trial court’s eviden-tiary rulings and the court’s directed verdict holding that hospital owed no duty to prevent a sexual assault. We affirm.

FACTS

Appellant K.L. entered the adult chemical dependency unit at Riverside Medical Center in Minneapolis. While K.L. was suffering from alcohol withdrawal, someone knocked on her door and said, “K.” 1 When she answered, a well-dressed man came into her room and asked how old she was. When K.L. said she was 49, the man, later identified as Aron Ghebrezghi, said, “You’re a nice looking lady for 49 years old.”…