Estate of Rodger Lynn Ross

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that physician’s scope of liability for birth injury was established as a matter of law and affirming judgment on jury verdict awarding damages to both parents and child
• affirming jury verdict awarding damages to parents for their baby’s brachial plexis injury and broken clavicle caused by physician’s negligence during delivery
• stating the court erred in instructing jury on causation under the “abandoned” Restatement (Second) standards rather than the scope-of-liability 5 Restatement (Third
• discussing the applicability of the Restatement (Third) of Torts in medical negligence cases
• overruled on other grounds by Alcala v. Marriott Int’l, Inc., 880 N.W.2d 699 (Iowa 2016) (“The . . . injury was established as a matter of law to be within [the defendant’s] scope of liability.”
• stating standard of review is abuse of discretion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).