Mills v. Angel

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a witness’ testimony was not sufficient to show the hospital had a duty to review the physician’s preference card prior to surgery
• recognizing that “[t]he medical standard of care is the threshold issue that a plaintiff must establish before the fact finder determines if the defendant deviated from the standard of care,” and “[a]s a general rule, expert testimony is required”
• expert testimony required when issue involves performance of medical procedures because nature of alleged negligence is not within common knowledge of laymen

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).