Bioethics Consultant Sued

Apart from the interesting issues raised about provider duties to investigate surrogate representations, the Noval v. Kaiser case is also notable because Kaiser ethicist, Dan Wilson, is named as a separate defendant.  This does not happen too often.  Last year, I was able to identify only a handful of instances in which an ethics committee or ethics consultant had been separately named as a defendant in civil litigation.  "Legal Briefing: Healthcare Ethics Committees," 22(1) J. CLINICAL ETHICS 74-93 (2011).  Corey Perry and colleagues did not find any additional cases as of the October 2011 ASBH meeting (Session 206).  I posted a copy of the Complaint here.