Bryant v. Oakpointe Villa Nursing Centre, Inc

How courts have described this case

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• holding that medical malpractice claims arise only “within the course of a professional relationship” with “a licensed health care professional [or] licensed health care facility”
• holding that claim nursing staff erred in moving decedent and failing to administer CPR after surgery sounded in medical malpractice
• recognizing that the fact-finder must rely on expert testimony when the assessment of the risks and benefits associated with a particular procedure are beyond the scope of common knowledge
• holding that a claim sounds in medical malpractice and thus requires expert testimony when the questions at issue are not “within the common knowledge and experience of the jury”
• explaining that although arising out of a single occurrence, medical malpractice and ordinary negligence present alternate theories of liability
• explaining that although arising out of a single occurrence, medical malpractice and ordinary negligence present alternate theories of liability

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).