YOUNG v. HUNTSVILLE HOSP.

1900997.

595 So.2d 1386 (1992)

Paula Jean YOUNG v. HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL and Battles Services, Inc.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Opinion Modified and Extended on Denial of Rehearing March 13, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lanny S. Vines and G. Whit Drake of Emond & Vines, Birmingham, for appellant Paula Jean Young.

W. Stanley Rodgers and George E. Knox, Jr. of Lanier Ford Shaver & Payne P.C., Huntsville, for appellee Huntsville Hosp.

Donald N. Spurrier of Spurrier, Rice & Henderson, Huntsville, for appellee Battles Services, Inc.


MADDOX, Justice.

The original opinion of December 27, 1991, is withdrawn and the following is substituted therefor.

This case presents a premises liability question. The specific question presented is whether a hospital or other health care facility owes a duty to protect its sedated or anesthetized patients from third-party criminal acts. We have never before decided this specific question, although we have considered other cases involving the liability of...

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