Doctor immune from claim for failure to hold psychiatric patient 

Posted: 1:00 am Mon, July 13, 2009
By Barbara L. Jones

A doctor’s good-faith decision not to place an emergency hold on a psychiatric patient is immune from negligence claims, the Court of Appeals has decided.The decision to release the patient was made under the Minnesota Commitment and Treatment Act, which contains a provision extending immunity to good-faith decisions to commit or place a 72-hour hold ...