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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Contreras finds in this accelerated permissive appeal that the lower court properly denied the appellant's motion for summary judgment. The appellant, a nonprofit health corporation, argues that it cannot be vicariously liable for the alleged negligence of a physician. However, the court concludes that the physician was an employee of the appellant "for purposes of vicarious liability," and he was acting within the course of his employment at the time of the alleged acts. Affirmed.
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