Readers Ask — We periodically receive correspondence from subscribers asking for our opinion on various issues or for an elaboration on past Letters. This issue is devoted to recent queries.
I have a physician client with a private practice. Instead of hiring associate doctors as employees of the practice, she contracts with independent doctors to “staff” her office. She believes this protects her from a liability claim arising out of the work of one of these “independent” doctors even when they’re practicing out of her office. I disagree. Who is right?
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