CONNERS v. NORTHEAST HOSPITAL CORPORATION


439 Mass. 469 (2003)

JANET CONNERS v. NORTHEAST HOSPITAL CORPORATION & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

May 29, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul R. Schneider (Janet H. Pumphrey with him) for the plaintiff.

John D. Bruce for Northeast Hospital Corporation.

Brian J. Mone for J. Marchese & Sons, Inc.

Beth R. Levenson for William O'Hearn.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Michael K. Gillis, Matthew P. McCue, & John J. St. Andre for Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys.

Lawrence B. Litwak, M. Robert Dushman, Cheryl B. Pinarchick, & Maggie Gold Seelig for Massachusetts Hospital Association, Inc.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, SOSMAN, & CORDY, JJ.


MARSHALL, C.J.

On April 2, 1997, while walking from a parking lot into the building where she worked, Janet Conners slipped on an accumulation of ice and snow and suffered a serious injury to her leg. She brought an action for damages against Northeast Hospital Corporation (Northeast), which owned and maintained the parking lot as part of a complex of buildings on its hospital campus. She also sued a Northeast employee — the director of its plant operations...

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