Illinois Hospital Faces Trial Over Doctor’s Alleged Negligence

Rush-Copley Medical Center Inc. failed to escape liability for a non-employed doctor’s alleged negligence because the degree of its control over her was a fact question.

The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Thursday denied the Aurora, Ill., facility’s motion for summary judgment in a medical malpractice action, saying that a reasonable jury could find that pediatrician Hinna Khan was acting as it apparent agent when she treated Nathaniel Pryor Jr.

The case involves a question that typically arises in health-care cases, where doctors often aren’t hospital employees, and facilities traditionally have no control over their medical ...