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Texas Supreme Court: Doctors’ Hospital Not Liable for Partner’s Patient Care

AUSTIN – An Edinburg doctors’ hospital is not liable for a botched delivery by one of its physician partners because the doctor was not acting with authority of the partnership, the Texas Supreme Court decided Friday.

The ruling clarified a situation in which a limited partner in a doctor-owned hospital also practices at the hospital. The court said that such doctors are acting under their separate admitting privileges, not with any authority of the partnership.

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