The appellant hospital appealed a trial judgment awarding the respondent doctor $3,000,000 in damages for the bad faith revocation of his hospital privileges.
The doctor cross-appealed the damage assessment, arguing it should have been higher.
The Court of Appeal dismissed both the appeal and the cross-appeal.
The Court found ample evidence to support the trial judge's finding that the hospital acted in bad faith and for an oblique motive when it summarily revoked the doctor's privileges.
On damages, the Court held that while the doctor failed to produce readily available evidence of his income loss, the trial judge was entitled to assess damages based on the proven magnitude of the loss, and was justified in reducing the claim by approximately half.
