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THOMPSON v. MERCY HOSP.

483 A.2d 706 (1984)

Dorothy A. THOMPSON v. MERCY HOSPITAL.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided October 29, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Greenberg & Greenberg, Stanley Greenberg (orally), Portland, for plaintiff.

Pierce, Atwood, Scribner, Allen, Smith & Lancaster, Ernest Babcock (orally), Wayne R. Douglas, Portland, for defendant.

NICHOLS, ROBERTS, WATHEN, GLASSMAN and SCOLNIK, JJ., and DUFRESNE, A.R.J.

NICHOLS, Justice.

The narrow issue presented in this appeal is whether a hospital which derives less than one percent of its annual revenue from charitable sources is entitled in a tort action to the defense of charitable immunity. We conclude that it is not.

On February 22, 1982, the Plaintiff, Dorothy A. Thompson, entered a complaint against the Defendant, Mercy Hospital, in Superior Court, Cumberland County; the...

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