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KIRKPATRICK v. MERIT BEHAVIORAL CARE CORP.

No. 2:97-CV-203.

70 F.Supp.2d 443 (1999)

Mary G. KIRKPATRICK, Esq., Legal Guardian for Jane Doe I, and Mary Kehoe, Esq., Legal Guardian for Jane Doe II, Plaintiffs, v. MERIT BEHAVIORAL CARE CORPORATION dba Merit Behavioral Care Systems Corporation, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Vermont.

August 19, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Manchester, Manchester Law Offices, P.C., Burlington, VT, Bryant Welch, Bryant L. Welch, J.D., Ph.D. & Associates, Potomac, MD, for Plaintiffs.

Robert E. Manchester, (See above), Bryant Welch, for Mary Kehoe, Legal Guardian for Jane Doe II nfr Jane Doe, II, plaintiff.

Peter B. Joslin, Jeffry W. White, Theriault & Joslin, Montpelier, VT, Jeffrey J. Bouslog, Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly LLP, St. Paul, MN, for Defendant.

OPINION AND ORDER

SESSIONS, District Judge.

This is a lawsuit brought on behalf of two adolescent women suffering from psychiatric illnesses who allege that Merit Behavioral Care Corporation ("Merit"), a managed care company, denied them necessary mental health treatment, causing each of them to suffer severe deterioration in their conditions culminating in near fatal suicide attempts. In its answer Merit asserts as an affirmative defense that the...

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