Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 11 Sec. 842

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Domestic: when applied to a corporation, company, association, or copartnership shall mean organized under the laws of this State; "foreign" when so applied, shall mean organized under the laws of another state, government, or country. See

§ 842. Confidential relationship

(a) The relationship between an individual rendering professional services as an employee of a domestic or foreign professional corporation and his or her client or patient is the same as if the individual were rendering the services as a sole practitioner.

(b) The relationship between a domestic or foreign professional corporation and the client or patient for whom its employee is rendering professional services is the same as that between the client or patient and the employee. (Added 2001, No. 77 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)