United States Fourth Circuit

The Health Care Quality Improvement Act, 42 USC 11111(a), does not require the ultimate decisionmaker to investigate a matter independently in order to be entitled to immunity, but requires only a reasonable effort to obtain the facts.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/05/2001
• Decided 05/17/2001
• Published 05/17/2001

Judges

• Before WIDENER and LUTTIG, Circuit Judges, and SMITH, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Kevin Anthony Dunne, Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver, P.C., Baltimore, MD, for Appellant. Kathleen A. Ellis, Piper, Marbury, Rudnick & Wolfe, L.L.P., Baltimore, MD, for Appellees. ON BRIEF:  John W. Sippel, Jr., Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver, P.C., Baltimore, MD, for Appellant.  Natalie F. Zaidman, Piper, Marbury, Rudnick & Wolfe, L.L.P., Baltimore, MD, for Appellees.