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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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