A psychiatrist cannot be sued for a car crash caused by a patient, a Pennsylvania appeals court ruled.
The Superior Court ruling upholds a decision written by a Blair County judge dismissing the lawsuit filed by Matthew Stever of Altoona, who was injured in a head-on crash caused by Crystal Ickes on Aug. 5, 2004.
Ickes was killed in the accident, so Stever sued her psychiatrist, Dr. Joseph Antonowicz of the Altoona Regional Health System. Stever argued that the doctor had a responsibility to preclude Ickes from driving, knowing there was danger in mixing antidepressant drugs and methadone. In his ruling, Judge Tim Sullivan cited four Superior and state Supreme Court cases in which doctors were deemed not responsible for accidents caused by patients.
Topics Auto Personal Auto Pennsylvania
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