WILLIAMS v. STEWARD HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, LLC

SJC-12451.

480 Mass. 286 (2018)

CYNTHIA WILLIAMS, personal representative, & another. v. STEWARD HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, LLC, & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 14, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chester L. Tennyson, Jr. , for the plaintiffs.

Edward F. Mahoney for the defendants.

John J. Barter , for Professional Liability Foundation, Ltd., amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: GANTS, C.J., LENK, GAZIANO, LOWY, BUDD, CYPHER, & KAFKER, JJ.


On February 21, 2012, Mary L. Miller was fatally stabbed in her home by "N," her neighbor and a former patient of Steward Carney Hospital.4 In this appeal, we consider whether the hospital owed Miller and her family a duty of care and, if so, whether a breach of...

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