MacRae v. Group Health Plan, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• 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).