Powell v. St John Hospital

How courts have described this case

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• concluding the plaintiff was not required to plead the lost chance doctrine because it was not a separate theory of recovery from the plaintiff’s medical malpractice claim alleging wrongful death
• concluding the plaintiff was not required to plead the lost chance doctrine because it was not a separate theory of recovery from the plaintiffs medical malpractice claim alleging wrongful death
• finding improper an argument that a hospital “tortured” the plaintiff improper where there was no evidence that “any of his agony was intentionally inflicted.”
• finding improper an argument that a hospital “tortured” the plaintiff improper where there was no evidence that “any of his agony was intentionally inflicted.”
• noting that evidence of bias is always relevant
• “Evidence that shows bias or prejudice on the part of a witness is always relevant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).