Legal Opinion
Anderson v. Eichner
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided December 6, 1994No. 79517, 79507PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPALA, Justice.
The first-impression issue dispositive .of these two appeals is whether the Governmental Tort Claims Act1 shields faculty physicians, resident physicians and interns — who are either teaching or participating in an educational program at Oklahoma Memorial Hospital — from tort liability in medical malpractice suits brought against them in then-status as state employees. We answer in the negative. We conclude today that (a) the Governmental Tort Claims Act specifically takes out of the state immunity purview those acts of physician educators and students which fall under the…
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3Cited by66 opinions
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