Sheron v. Lutheran Medical Center

How courts have described this case

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• upholding a jury verdict that found a hospital negligent because the emergency department failed to conduct an adequate mental health status examination and discharged a patient, who committed suicide the next day
• allowing suicide victim to be found comparatively negligent when there was evidence he was not completely truthful or forthcoming in his statements to medical care providers and when he failed to keep a follow- up mental health appointment
• rejecting blanket rule disregarding suicidal patient’s comparative fault because “such a rule would fail to account for the nearly limitless different factual scenarios involved in these cases, many of which could well involve some fault by the patient”
• rejecting blanket rule disregarding suicidal patient’s comparative fault because “such a rule would fail to account for the nearly limitless different factual scenarios involved in these cases, many of which could well involve some fault by the patient”
• upheld trial court’s instruction to jury allowing consideration of negligence of suicide patient who, after release from emergency room, committed suicide the next day
• to withhold defense of patient’s comparative negligence “would ignore the strong policy in Colorado of apportioning fault in tort actions”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).