Agency | 1st Dist.
Yarbrough v.
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, 2016 IL App (1st) 141585
(August 19, 2016) Cook Co., 5th Div. (BURKE) Certified question answered;
remanded.
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, 2016 IL App (1st) 141585
(August 19, 2016) Cook Co., 5th Div. (BURKE) Certified question answered;
remanded.
(Court opinion corrected 10/28/16.) A hospital can be held vicariously liable
under apparent agency doctrine set forth in Illinois Supreme Court’s 1993
Gilbert v. Sycamore Municipal Hospital decision, and its progeny, for acts of
employees of an unrelated, independent clinic that is not a party to present
litigation, assuming that Plaintiff establishes elements of apparent authority
as set forth in Gilbert decision.(REYES and GORDON, concurring.)