LAMBERT v. SISTERS OF MERCY HEALTH CORP.

No. 84-23.

369 N.W.2d 417 (1985)

Martin C. LAMBERT, Administrator of the Estate of Travis Martin Lambert; Cynthia Lambert; and Martin C. Lambert, Appellees, v. SISTERS OF MERCY HEALTH CORPORATION, a Corporation, Individually and d/b/a Marian Health Center-St. Joseph Unit, Appellant, and Leonard H. Boggs and Richard Ratino, Individually and as Boggs and Ratino, a Partnership; and John A. Walck, Defendants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

June 19, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter C. Schroeder, Mason City, for appellant hospital.

N. Richard Willia and Edward J. Keane, Sioux City, for appellees.

Considered by UHLENHOPP, P.J., and HARRIS, McGIVERIN, LARSON and SCHULTZ, JJ.


UHLENHOPP, Presiding Justice.

This appeal in a medical malpractice case presents several issues for consideration: whether plaintiffs Martin C. and Cynthia Lambert generated a jury question on proximate cause; whether the trial court erred in excluding the testimony of an expert witness where co-defendant doctors properly identified the witness but were discharged on a directed verdict thus requiring the remaining defendant hospital to call the witness; and whether...

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