Landon v. Zorn

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding a trial judge’s decision to instruct the jury on a medical malpractice theory of liability, but not on an informed consent theory
• stating that the doctrine of informed consent requires a physician to warn his or her patient of all material risks inherent or collateral to the procedure in order to enable the patient to make an informed decision of whether to undergo the procedure
• stating that the doctrine of informed consent requires a physician to warn his or her patient of all material risks inherent or collateral to the procedure in order to enable the patient to make an informed decision of whether to undergo the procedure
• not an abuse of discretion to refuse question regarding bias against a tort plaintiff
• plaintiff precluded from recovery on informed consent claim when plaintiff failed to elicit expert testimony describing “the risks associated with not submitting to a CAT scan”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).