Legal Opinion
Bergherr v. Sommer
Court of Appeals of Minnesota
Decided December 20, 1994No. CX-94-999PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JOHN F. THOREEN, Judge. *
A foreign medical lab appeals a district court order denying its motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction. We agree with the district court that Minnesota may properly exercise jurisdiction over the foreign defendant where it has had numerous contacts with Minnesota through an intermediary.
FACTS
Joan Bergherr (Bergherr) died at the age of 33 from cervical cancer. Her husband sued the attending doctor (Sommer) for failing to diagnose her illness. MetPath, Inc. (MetPath) and Dallas Pathology Associates, Inc. (DPA), medical labs that had examined cells…
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