Cramer v. Slater

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• Restatement section 457 “generally applies to any subsequent medical negligence which is necessary to correct an original act of medical negligence, thereby making acts of subsequent medical negligence generally foreseeable.”
• \the question of proximate cause is one of fact and almost always for the jury.\
• whether misdiagnosis was cause of suicide was question of fact for the jury
• “The plaintiff bears the burden of proving every element in a negligence action____”
• Where “injuries are subjective and measurable with only an approximation of certainty, their award is primarily a question for the [trier of fact] and an appellate court should interfere with such a verdict only in the most exceptional circumstances.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).