Sedor v. Community Medical Center

NEALON, J.,

A neurosurgeon who was struck by a hospital bed that was being transported by a hospital employee with the gratuitous assistance of an orthopedic implants sales representative has filed suit *195against those individuals, their employers and the manufacturer and distributor of the orthopedic implants that were being delivered to the hospital by the independent contractor sales representative. Following a partial summaiy judgment ruling that no master-servant relationship existed between the implants distributor and the salesman for purposes of vicarious liability, the implants…