Your Urgent Care Center Is One Slip of the Gear Shift Away from Potential Disaster

The odds of seeing a car or other vehicle come crashing through the front of your urgent care center are awfully small—until it happens, of course. Imperial Health Urgent Care in Lake Charles, LA was on the receiving end of just such an event recently when a driver apparently shifted their vehicle into “drive” instead of “reverse” and plowed through the front end of the facility. As reported by KPLC 7 News, there were no injuries but structural damage forced the center to stop conducting lab work. They were able to keep seeing patients, however. Regardless of the cause of an accident, or how unlikely it is for such events to occur, there’s no guarantee that urgent care operators won’t find themselves in some degree of legal jeopardy when one takes place. To assess how well you’re prepared, read Urgent Care Operator’s Liability for a Car Crash into the Center in the JUCM archive.