MacRae v. Group Health Plan, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that courts should “not make inferential leaps in favor of the defendant to conclude that a lawsuit is time-barred”
• stating that the prima facie case for medical malpractice requires (1) a showing of the applicable standard of care, (2) that the defendant departed from that standard, and (3) “that the defendant’s departure from the standard was a direct cause of the patient’s injuries”
• Throughout this opinion, we mostly use the term reduced chance rather than the more common term loss of chance to avoid confusion between the two potential claims compared and discussed here — a mere reduction in chance of survival (loss-of-chance or reduced-chance claim
• defining the “essential elements for medical malpractice claims”
• setting forth elements of medical negligence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Park Nicollet Clinic v. Hamann
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2011-12-07· cited 140×
• Residential Funding Company v. Terrace Mortgage Company
  Eighth Circuit· 2013-08-07· cited 33×
• Dickhoff ex rel. Dickhoff v. Green
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2013-05-31· cited 21×
• Fleeger v. Wyeth
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2009-09-03· cited 19×
• Huggins v. Stryker Corp.
  D. Minnesota· 2013-03-25· cited 18×
• BankCHEROKEE v. INSIGNIA DEVELOPMENT, LLC
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2010-03-16· cited 12×
• Blohm v. Kelly
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2009-05-12· cited 9×
• Block v. Toyota Motor Corp.
  D. Minnesota· 2014-03-18· cited 7×
• Dickhoff ex rel. Dickhoff v. Green
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2012-01-03· cited 1×
• Gallaher v. Titler
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2012-04-30· cited 1×
• Stroop v. Farmers Insurance Exchange
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2009-04-21
• Doug Hoskin, Appellant, vs. Josh Krsnak, et al., Respondents
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2025-09-10
• State of Minnesota Office of the Attorney General v. Madison Equities, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2026-01-07

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Fabio v. Bellomo
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1993-08-20· cited 547×
• Offerdahl v. University of Minnesota Hospitals & Clinics
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1988-07-22· cited 379×
• Dalton v. Dow Chemical Co.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1968-04-19· cited 92×
• K.A.C. v. Benson
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1995-02-10· cited 78×
• State Ex Rel. Foster v. Naftalin
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1956-01-20· cited 69×
• Plutshack Ex Rel. Plutshack v. University of Minnesota Hospitals
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1982-02-12· cited 48×
• DeBoer v. Brown
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1983-11-16· cited 45×
• State Farm Fire & Casualty v. Aquila Inc.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2006-08-03· cited 41×
• Herrmann v. McMenomy & Severson
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1999-04-08· cited 41×
• St. George v. Pariser
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1997-04-18· cited 38×
• Molloy v. Meier
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2004-05-20· cited 38×
• Antone v. Mirviss
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2006-08-17· cited 32×
• Leubner v. Sterner
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1992-12-18· cited 30×