Example of Corporate Negligence for Credentialing Decisions

It's called Insinga
versus LaBella.

And it's about a physician
who I believe was actually

convicted of a felony in Canada
and came down here to Florida

and got a Florida license
and got clinical privileges

at a hospital here in
Florida and started

doing operations on people and
treating people in the hospital.

And he was a total fraud.

In fact, he wasn't
even named LaBella.

He'd actually got the medical
license and medical diploma

information from an Italian
physician named LaBella

and claimed he went
to school in Italy,

and this wasn't even
the same doctor.

This was a completely
different doctor.

But because the hospital didn't
do a thorough job of checking

his credentials, I mean,
the Italian physician,

who was dead by the
way, was even a female.

And this was a male doctor.

So you have a male
doctor here pretending

to be a female
doctor who's dead,

claiming he went
to school in Italy.

Oh, I graduated from this
medical school in Italy,

and had was clinical
privileges at a hospital.

But because they didn't do
a thorough, thorough job

of checking the background and
checking the clinical privileges

and making sure that that
person was who he claimed to be,

they put him in a position to
treat patients and malpractice

on patients and stuff.

And he harmed quite
a few patients

before they
eventually found out.

So they were able to sue
the hospital directly,

and this is where one of the
examples of corporate negligence

comes from where you can sue
the corporation directly.

You don't have to worry about
vicarious liability because

of its employees.

Here, they sued the hospital
directly for its own negligence,

because they didn't have a
good-enough procedure in place

to check the backgrounds of
people that came in and applied

for clinical privileges.

So this person just
slipped through.