St. Joseph Hospital v. Wolff

Justice MOSELEY1

delivered the judgment of the Court

in-which Chief Justice PHILLIPS, Justice HECHT, Justice OWEN, Justice O’NEILL, and Justice JEFFERSON joined,

and an opinion in which Justice HECHT, Justice OWEN, and Justice JEFFERSON joined.

This case involves whether a teaching hospital that sponsors a medical residency program is vicariously hable for a resident’s negligent treatment of a patient, occurring while the resident, as part of the residency training program, was receiving training at another hospital under the immediate supervision of another medical institution’s agent. To answer…