# Moser v. Heistand

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · July 31, 1996 · 545 Pa. 554

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9747403

## Case

- **Full name:** Karyl L. MOSER and Robert E. Moser, H/w, Appellants, v. Dr. Landis C. HEISTAND, M.D. and Ashland State General Hospital and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Public Welfare and Ashland Regional Medical Center, Appellees
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** July 31, 1996
- **Citations:** 545 Pa. 554; 681 A.2d 1322; 1996 Pa. LEXIS 1615
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Flaherty
- **Judges:** Nix, Flaherty, Zappala, Cappy, Castille, Nigro, Newman
- **Cited by:** 51 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- explaining difference between “corporate liability” asserted against institution itself and respondeat superior liability based on negligent actions of institution’s employees

## Opinion text

FLAHERTY, Justice,
concurring.
I join the opinion authored by Madame Justice Newman, certainly the result, but I write separately to express my continuing opposition to this court’s creation of such a novel concept as “corporate liability,” which is in every sense of the term an anomaly to established concepts of liability under respondeat superior. I make reference to my dissenting opinion in Thompson v. Nason Hospital, 527 Pa. 330 , 591 A.2d 703 (1991).
NIX, C.J., joins this concurring opinion.

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