Health center is hospital, not charity

New Jersey has had a tortured history with the judicially created doctrine of charitable immunity.

According to the state Supreme Court, the state Supreme Court, like courts or legislatures of most states in the country, rejected the theory of charitable immunity, which holds that people who give to charitable organizations should not have those funds diverted to pay for judgments for people injured by the organization.  The Supreme Court reversed its prior acceptance of charitable immunity in a series of cases in 1958 and abolished the rule for the state.