The state Supreme Court has declined to further expand upon the narrow line of facts imposing a physician's duty to third parties, ruling in a case over whether doctors who treat prison inmates have a duty to warn at-risk corrections officers that an inmate has a communicable disease.
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No Physician Duty to Third Parties in Prison Guard Case
The Legal Intelligencer
January 22, 2013
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