Madison Ex Rel. Bryant v. Babcock Center

Acting Justice COLE:

In this appeal, we are asked to decide the novel issue of whether a private treatment center owes a duty to exercise reasonable care in supervising a mentally retarded person admitted to its care; the novel issue of whether a state agency which has a contract with the center owes a duty of care to the person; and whether the mentally retarded person in this case, as a matter of law, proximately caused her own injuries.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

It is undisputed that Madison1 (Appellant), now thirty-two years old, is a mentally retarded woman with disabilities and *131spec…