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Medical staff granted right to sue hospital over bylaws

Medical staff granted right to sue hospital over bylaws

Medical staff granted right to sue hospital over bylaws

The Supreme Court of Minnesota has granted the medical staff of a nonprofit hospital the right to sue the hospital board over a disputed change in the medical staff bylaws imposed by the hospital board without approval of the physicians. In a case of “first impression,” the Court reversed decisions by the trial court and an intermediate appellate court holding that the staff could not sue as a separate body, and that the bylaws were not an enforceable contract. The issue arose in 2012 after a hospital acquisition in which the two previous entities contested the admission of certain physicians to staff privileges. The medical staff sought to hold meetings without hospital representatives...

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