Williams v. Dimensions Health Corp.

Summary

The court held that sufficient evidence supported the jury’s finding that the trauma surgeon was the hospital’s apparent agent and that the hospital was vicariously liable for the surgeon’s negligence. The hospital’s trauma-center designation, the EMS decision to transport Williams there for that reason, and the absence of timely, meaningful notice that the surgeon was an independent contractor supported the representation, reliance, and reasonableness elements. The court reversed the intermediate appellate judgment and remanded for consideration of the hospital’s conditional cross-appeal.