Judgment For Elder Care Group Reversed In False Imprisonment Suit Filed By POA

Mealey's (October 12, 2022, 1:04 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — A Massachusetts appellate court reversed and remanded a lower court’s decision granting summary judgment and dismissing the complaint in a false imprisonment suit filed against a police officer, hospital and elder care services agency and its implicated employee by a former health care proxy and power of attorney (POA) for a priest who was removed from the proxy’s home and hospitalized without the proxy’s consent, finding that “there are material factual disputes that preclude the entry of summary judgment.”...