Lori HOFFLANDER, Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross Petitioner,
MILWAUKEE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, Plaintiff-Co-Appellant,
v.
ST. CATHERINE'S HOSPITAL, INC., Sentry Insurance, a Mutual Company, Patients Compensation Fund, Horizon Mental Health Management, Inc. and Columbia Casualty Company, Defendants-Respondents-Petitioners.
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Oral argument September 5, 2002.
Decided July 1, 2003.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
For the defendants-respondents-petitioners St. Catherine's Hospital, Inc., Sentry Insurance Company and Patients Compensation Fund, there were briefs by John A. Nelson, Timothy W. Feeley and von Briesen, Purtell & Roper, S.C., Milwaukee, and oral argument by John A. Nelson.
For the defendants-respondents-petitioners Horizon Mental Health Management, Inc. and Columbia Casualty Company, there were briefs by John K. Hughes and Gessler, Hughes, Socol, Piers, Resnick & Dym, Ltd., Chicago, Illinois, and oral argument by John K. Hughes.
For the plaintiff-appellant-cross petitioner, there were briefs by Jerome A. Hierseman and Gray & End, L.L.P., Milwaukee and oral argument by Jerome A. Hierseman.
For the plaintiff-co-appellant, there was a brief by Louis Edward Elder, principal assistant corporation counsel.
An amicus curiae brief was filed by Timothy J. Aiken, David M. Skoglind and Aiken & Scoptur, S.C., Milwaukee, for Wisconsin Academy of Trial Lawyers, with oral argument by Timothy J. Aiken.
Supreme Court of Wisconsin.
¶ 1. DAVID T. PROSSER, J.
This is a review of a published decision of the court of appeals.1 We are asked to address multiple issues related to injuries sustained by Lori Hofflander (Hofflander) during her December 1996 stay in the Behavioral Services Unit of St. Catherine's Hospital in Kenosha.
¶ 2. Hofflander was involuntarily committed to the hospital as a suicide precaution...
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