Roger that.
Posted on 7/29/2007, 8:57:05 PM by bobsunshine
The state Supreme Court says a dentist who stuck boar tusks into the mouth of an anesthetized employee/patient, pried her eyes open, and took photographs, was conducting a "business practice" and his insurance company must pay his attorney fees and court costs. That means dentist Robert Woo will get more money from his insurance company than his employee did when she sued him for "outrage, battery, invasion of privacy, false light, public disclosure of private acts, nonpayment of overtime wages, retaliation for requesting payment of overtime wages, medical negligence, lack of informed consent, and negligent infliction of emotional distress."
The majority opinion in Woo v. Fireman's Fund Ins. Co., was written by Justice Mary Fairhurst and signed by Tom Chambers, Susan Owens, Richard Sanders and Bobbe Bridge. Fireman's had refused to defend Woo in the suit brought by Tina Alberts, the employee he was performing a dental procedure on.
Fireman's refused to defend under the professional liability provision on the grounds that the acts alleged in Alberts' complaint did not arise out of the provision of dental services. It refused to defend under the employment practices liability provision on the grounds that the complaint did not allege sexual harassment, discrimination, or wrongful discharge as those terms were defined by the policy. It refused to defend under the general liability provision on the grounds that the alleged practical joke was intentional and was not considered a "business activity." The Supreme Court ruled that Fireman's "had a duty to defend under the professional liability and general liability provisions but not under the employment practices liability provision."
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
"Today's majority decision rewards Dr. Woo's obnoxious behavior and allows him to profit handsomely, receiving a total of $750,000, triple the damages paid to the real victim of his intentional offensive and likely tortious conduct.
This is incredibly crazy. Maybe it’s time that insurance companies can sue idiots who they insure for irresponsible behavior.
I feel like Alice down the rabbit hole....
susie
What else has this dentist done to anesthetized patients, and taken pictures of?
He certainly won’t feel guilty about doing what he wants.
I guess it would have been different if he’d knocked her out and “filled her cavity”, but implanting tusks as a prank is fine. I wonder what kinds of stuff is covered for gynocologists as “business-related”?
Dr. Woo should have some amatuer realignment and extraction work done by his former employee’s male relatives.
we NEED pix
“Is it safe?”
Roger that.
Not a very good dentist :-)
As much as I enjoy a good practical joke...this guy was and is just asking for trouble.
All but Sanders voted the prohomosexual marriage side.
Mary Fairhurst and signed by Tom Chambers, Susan Owens, Richard Sanders and Bobbe Bridge. Fairhurst is an unmarried flaming liberal close friend of Gregoire. She also wrote the main dissent on the Defense of MArriage Act, and included a remark that homosexuals are underrepresented in government. That is definitely not the case in Washington. I doubt homosexuals are underrepresentedd on the state supreme court.
Owens is a flaming liberal; as is the drunk-driving, hit and run justice Bobbe Bridge, wife of a son of Ben Bridge of Ben Bridge Jewelery.
Sanders is generally pretty good in most cases, except when it involves judicial corruption.
“I guess it would have been different if he’d knocked her out and “filled her cavity”, but implanting tusks as a prank is fine. I wonder what kinds of stuff is covered for gynocologists as “business-related”?”
Gynecologists don’t knock you out with sedatives. Dentists can get away with all kinds of kinky stuff. Mine is terrible about that, I think.
You THINK??!!
Well, I’m not really sure since I was sedated.
Seinfeld Ping List - The Ping List About Nothing. On the list - off the list. Conrad the handiman (Conrad, Connie or Con) says whatever you want is fine with him.
I hope it’s not like the gal who told me once, “If you (have sex)with me and I find out about it,....”
Maybe I should look for a lady dentist?
Had an emergency angioplasty a few months back and the cardiologist asked me before he started if I’d taken Viagra or anything. I just said, “Boy, if I only had a reason...” Some of the ladies on his crew had real pretty eyes, but with the surgical hats and masks, I just couldn’t tell...
LOL. Wrong yes. Funny yes.
The pictures had to be entered into evidence no ?
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