Osborne Ex Rel. Osborne v. Adams
Case Details
- Judge(s)
- Pleicones, Toal, Moore, Waller, Burnett
- Status — whether other courts must follow this ruling
- Published
- Procedural Posture — the stage the case had reached
- appeal
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Outcome
The South Carolina Supreme Court reversed the trial court's grant of summary judgment for the hospital and remanded the case, holding that the hospital owed a nondelegable duty to provide competent neonatal care and could not avoid liability for negligent acts of independent contractor physicians when it held itself out as providing those services.
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