Bret Bohn v. Providence Health Services - Washington

Summary

The Alaska Supreme Court reversed the Superior Court’s grant of summary judgment to Providence Health Services, holding that the hospital was not entitled to immunity under the Health Care Decisions Act because the statute requires a specific good‑faith belief that a surrogate lacks legal authority, not merely a belief that the surrogate acted against the patient’s best interests. The Court remanded for further proceedings on the hospital’s duty to cooperate with a transfer and on liability for acting as the patient’s surrogate, and denied the patient’s request to disqualify the trial judge as waived.