C074810Whitlow v. Rideout Memorial Hospital

Opinion

RAYE, P. J. —

The trial court granted defendant Rideout Memorial Hospital’s motion for summary judgment, finding that, as a matter of law, the emergency room physician who failed to diagnose and treat decedent’s brain hemorrhage was not an ostensible agent of the hospital. On appeal, the surviving children argue that, despite the hospital’s boilerplate admissions form and signage stating the emergency room physicians are independent contractors, they have presented triable issues of material fact whether their mother entrusted herself to the hospital, whether the hospital selected the…