Oregon Supreme Court Expands Medical Professionals’ Ordinary Negligence Liability to Nonpatient Third Parties

On December 11, 2025, the Oregon Supreme Court confirmed that a medical professional can face ordinary negligence claims by nonpatient third parties for physical injuries caused by their patient, at least where the medical professional’s conduct unreasonably created a foreseeable risk of the kind of harm that occurred….
By: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC