ERIC T. v. NATIONAL MEDICAL ENTERPRISES

Nos. 95-CV-1118, 96-CV-12, -77, -1438, -1439, -1609, & -1874.

700 A.2d 749 (1997)

ERIC T., et al., Appellants, v. NATIONAL MEDICAL ENTERPRISES, INC., et al., Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 21, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. David Hoskins, with whom Kenneth D. Pack, Baltimore, MD, and John Jude O'Donnell, Washington, DC, were on the brief, for appellants/cross-appellees.

F. Joseph Warin, with whom Julia A. Dahlberg and Thomas G. Hungar, Washington, DC, were on the brief, for appellee Psychiatric Institutes of America, Inc.; Paul D. Krause and Carol Ann Petren, Washington, DC, for appellees Psychiatric Institute of Montgomery County, Inc., Psychiatric Institute of Washington, D.C., Springwood Psychiatric Institute, and Tidewater Psychiatric Institute, Inc.; Andrew E. Vernick and Michael K. Wiggins, Annapolis, MD, for appellees Peter R. Cohen, M.D., Suzanne E. Kerney, M.D., Thomas Lustberg, M.D., Thomas Lustberg, M.D., P.A., William Stran McCurley, M.D., Ralph S. Ryback, M.D., and Associated Mental Health Professionals; Jeffrey J. Hines and Danell Palladine Dean, Washington, DC, for appellees Lawrence Greenwood, M.D., and Clare Stroker, M.D.; Thomas V. Monahan, Jr. and Susan T. Preston, Baltimore, MD, for appellee C. Gibson Dunn, M.D.; Robert W. Goodson and William J. Carter, Washington, DC, for appellee Contemporary Psychiatric Services — Bruce Alan Kehr, M.D., P.A.; and Lawrence K. Gustafson for appellee National Medical Enterprises, Inc.

Andrew E. Vernick, Annapolis, MD, with whom Thomas V. Monahan, Jr. and Susan T. Preston, Baltimore, MD, were on the brief, for appellees/cross-appellants Thomas Lustberg, M.D., Thomas Lustberg, M.D., P.A., and C. Gibson Dunn, M.D.

Before FERREN, SCHWELB and FARRELL, Associate Judges.


SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

These consolidated appeals and cross-appeals arise from suits brought by former patients at certain psychiatric hospitals, and by parents of former patients, against various corporate entities which operate or control these hospitals and against individual psychiatrists who treated the complaining patients. In their complaints, the plaintiffs have alleged medical malpractice, fraud, civil conspiracy, and a number of other torts. In each case...

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