Court Opinion

ID: 9531575
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 04:13:09.687375+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:28:31.746329
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KIRSCH, Chief Judge,
concurring.
I fully concur in the decision of the majority that the trial court erred in denying Denison’s Motion for Summary Judgment. I part with my colleagues, however, regarding their conclusion that “[t]his case bears a remarkable resemblance to Lawson” referring to Lawson v. Lafayette Home Hospital, Inc., 760 N.E.2d 1126 (Ind.Ct.App.2002). I dissented in Lawson, and, to me, there is a marked difference between the two cases. In Lawson, the public sidewalk was located between the hospital’s parking lot and the hospital. The sidewalk was the means of ingress and egress for the many patients, visitors and other business invitees who came to the hospital each day. I believe the relationship between the hospital and its invitees is very different than that between the owner of a building abutting a public sidewalk and a third party pedestrian walking down the sidewalk. It was this relationship that caused me to believe that the hospital owed a duty in Lawson, and it is the lack of such a relationship that causes me to conclude that no duty was owed here.