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Hospital Uses Improper Tactics To Establish Indemnity Claims

A hospital found vicariously liable for injuries sustained to a patient may not invoke an offensive collateral estoppel tactic in establishing indemnity claims, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, said in a reversed opinion Tuesday. "The hospital may sue for indemnity," Judge Lawrence E. Mooney wrote in the opinion. "However, because the hospital's claim ...

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