Case: Individual Employment Rights/Contracts (D. Vt.)

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is granted summary judgment on a board certified physician’s breach of contract claims, but his related misrepresentation and promissory estoppel claims survive dismissal, a federal district court in Vermont ruled. The physician claims that there are disputed issues of fact regarding whether the parties entered a verbal employment contract to appoint him chair of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and whether the medical center knew of his detrimental reliance on it. The parties never agreed on his start date or the length of his term of employment, which are both essential terms of the alleged agreement, the court ...