EXETER HOSP. MEDICAL STAFF v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF EXETER HEALTH RESOURCES

No. 2001-134.

148 N.H. 492 (2002)

EXETER HOSPITAL MEDICAL STAFF & a. v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF EXETER HEALTH RESOURCES, INC. & a.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

Opinion Issued: November 14, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sulloway & Hollis, P.L.L.C., of Concord (Michel A. LaFond and Robert M. Larsen on the brief), for the petitioners.

Flygare, Schwarz & Closson, P.L.L.C., of Exeter (Daniel P. Schwarz on the brief), and McDermott, Will & Emery, of Boston, Massachusetts (Steven W. Kasten and Jennifer S. Geetter on the brief), for the respondents.

Rath, Young and Pignatelli, P.A., of Concord (Lucy C. Hodder on the brief), for the American Medical Association and the New Hampshire Medical Society, as amici curiae.

Wadleigh, Starr & Peters, P.L.L.C., of Manchester (Eugene M. Van Loan III on the brief), for the American Hospital Association and the New Hampshire Hospital Association, as amici curiae.

Sanders & McDermott, P.L.L.C., of Hampton (Wilfred L. Sanders, Jr. on the brief), for intervenor Alain Ades, M.D.

Kamensky & Rubinstein, of Lincolnwood, Illinois (Miles J. Zaremski), and Maxwell J. Mehlman of Cleveland, Ohio, for the American College of Legal Medicine, as amicus curiae, adopted the brief of the American Medical Association and the New Hampshire Medical Society.


DUGGAN, J.

The petitioners, Dr. Mark Windt and the Exeter Hospital medical staff (medical staff), appeal the orders of the Superior Court (Coffey, J.) granting the respondents' motions to dismiss. We affirm in part, vacate in part and remand.

The dispute in this case arose when the respondents, the boards of trustees of Exeter Hospital, Inc. and Exeter Health Resources, Inc. (boards), removed Dr. Windt from the boards. Upon being elected to a two-year...

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