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Illinois Rejects Market Share Liability: A Policy Based Analysis Of Smith V. Eli Lilly & Co., 79 Ky. L.J. 617 (1991), Kurt M. Zitzer, Marc Ginsberg Jan 1991

Illinois Rejects Market Share Liability: A Policy Based Analysis Of Smith V. Eli Lilly & Co., 79 Ky. L.J. 617 (1991), Kurt M. Zitzer, Marc Ginsberg

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

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Privity, Products Liability, And Ucc Warranties: A Retrospect Of And Prospects For Illinois Commercial Code 2-318, 25 J. Marshall L. Rev. 177 (1991), Steven Bonanno Jan 1991

Privity, Products Liability, And Ucc Warranties: A Retrospect Of And Prospects For Illinois Commercial Code 2-318, 25 J. Marshall L. Rev. 177 (1991), Steven Bonanno

UIC Law Review

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From Hannola To Albain: The Rise And Fall Of Ohio's Hospital Agency By Estoppel Doctrine, David J. Wigham Jan 1991

From Hannola To Albain: The Rise And Fall Of Ohio's Hospital Agency By Estoppel Doctrine, David J. Wigham

Cleveland State Law Review

The role of the hospital in the field of medicine has evolved significantly in recent decades. Now hospitals privately distance themselves as far as possible from the acts of the negligent physician. Courts have intervened in recent years and expanded the scope of vicarious hospital liability. This Note will begin with a brief history of vicarious hospital liability. Next, it will examine the elements of two doctrines which are being used to impute such liability to hospitals - agency by estoppel and ostensible agency - and determine how each has been applied by courts across the nation to the hospital …