KOCKELMAN v. SEGAL

Docket No. H016390.

61 Cal.App.4th 491 (1998)

VALERIE KOCKELMAN, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. JONATHAN SEGAL et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Sixth District.

January 7, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

John F. Schuck for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Dryden, Margoles, Schimaneck, Kelly & Wait and Susan E. Foe for Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

BAMATTRE-MANOUKIAN, J.

In this wrongful death action, Valerie Kockelman alleged that psychiatrist Dr. Jonathan Segal and the Palo Alto Medical Foundation for Health Care, Research and Education, were negligent in treating her husband, William Kockelman, for his chronic depression, and that this negligence was a proximate cause of her husband's suicide. The trial court granted summary judgment in favor of defendants, finding...

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