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GROUP HEALTH ASS'N, INC. v. REYES

No. 95-CV-212.

672 A.2d 74 (1996)

GROUP HEALTH ASSOCIATION, INC., Appellant, v. Lilia M. REYES, et al., Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided February 27, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James P. Gleason, with whom Nancy B. McKeown, Rockville, MD, was on the brief, for appellant.

Harlow R. Case, with whom Jack H. Olender, Washington, DC, was on the brief, for appellees.

Before FERREN, STEADMAN, and RUIZ, Associate Judges.

FERREN, Associate Judge:

A jury awarded appellees Lilia M. Reyes and Andres Hernandez-Amor $2,100,000 in damages in their suit for negligence and loss of consortium against Group Health Association, Inc., a health maintenance organization. Group Health's liability was based solely upon the theory of respondeat superior—i.e., upon the failure of one of its employees, Dr. Karen Bledsoe, to make a timely diagnosis

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