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ESTATE OF DRESSER v. MAINE MEDICAL CENTER

Docket: Cum-08-88.

960 A.2d 1205 (2008)

2008 ME 183

ESTATE OF Eleanor DRESSER v. MAINE MEDICAL CENTER.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: December 11, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. Nugent, Esq. (orally), Law Offices of William C. Nugent, Portland, ME, for the Estate of Eleanor Dresser.

Mark G. Lavoie, Esq., Christopher C. Taintor, Esq. (orally), Norman, Hanson & DeTroy, LLC, Portland, ME, for Maine Medical Center.

Dissent: LEVY, MEAD, and GORMAN, JJ.

ALEXANDER, J.

[¶ 1] Lisa Shiers, as personal representative of the Estate of Eleanor Dresser, appeals from a judgment of the Superior Court (Cumberland County, Warren, J.) granting Maine Medical Center's motion for a partial summary judgment on the Estate's complaint for medical negligence. Shiers contends that the Superior Court erred in holding that our law requires extinguishment of the liability of joint tortfeasors as a precondition to an action seeking...

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