finding that medical provider who was subject to mandatory reporting requirement for gunshot wounds presented for treatment enjoyed a qualified or conditional privilege against civil liability when he reported to police a suspected gunshot wound, if in good faith he had a subjective belief in the accuracy of his report at the time
How later courts described this case
- finding that medical provider who was subject to mandatory reporting requirement for gunshot wounds presented for treatment enjoyed a qualified or conditional privilege against civil liability when he reported to police a suspected gunshot wound, if in good faith he had a subjective belief in the accuracy of his report at the time
- reversing a denial a motion for summary judgment and finding there was no evidence to show that the doctor reported a suspected gunshot wound to the police in bad faith
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
ARMSTRONG, C.J.,
concurs in the result.
hi respectfully concur in the result reached in the majority opinion.