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EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT PHYSICIANS AND HOSPITAL FOUND NOT LIABLE FOR FAILURE TO INITIATE CHILD ABUSE REPORT

The New Jersey Supreme Court has issued a decision finding that an emergency department physician and the hospital where he worked did not breach their duty to report suspected child abuse for failure to report a child’s ingestion of cologne.  The Supreme Court reversed an earlier decision of the Appellate Division, which had found that […]