65 Mich. App. 644 - Rogers v. Horvath’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Hafner v. Beck (1995), Greenberg v. Perkins (1993)
3 federal appellate · 35 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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Most-quoted passages
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“The principal question raised by this appeal is whether a professional physician-patient relationship is a legal prerequisite to basing a cause of action in professional malpractice against a physician. The term “malpractice” denotes a breach of the duty owed by one in rendering, professional services to a person who has contracted for such services; in physician-malpractice cases, the duty owed by the physician arises from the physician-patient relationship. No such relationship existed in the case at bar. Defendant was employed by General Motors to examine one of its employees in preparation for a workmen’s compensation hearing. Plaintiff did not employ the defendant, nor did she seek or receive medical advice or treatment. Under such circumstances, the defendant did not owe plaintiff any duty arising from a physician-patient relationship. This is not to say that a physician who examines a person for reasons other than diagnosis or treatment and for the bene fit of some one other than the examinee owes no duty of due care to that person. Rather, we hold that the physician in such a case does not owe such a duty of care as will subject him to liability for malpractice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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