PHILLIPS v. COVENANT CLINIC

No. 99-0865.

625 N.W.2d 714 (2001)

Janet PHILLIPS, Executor of the Estate of Paul Harvey Phillips, Appellant, v. COVENANT CLINIC, Ronald Roth, Thomas Pattee, and Ronald Flory, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

April 25, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roman Vald and David L. Phillips of Phillips, McCollom, Kozlowski & Vald, P.L.C., West Des Moines, for appellant.

George L. Weilein of Gallagher, Langlas & Gallagher, P.C., Waterloo, for appellees.

Considered en banc.


CADY, Justice.

Janet Phillips, as executor of her father's estate, brought this wrongful death action against the Covenant Clinic and three physicians after her father died of heart failure shortly after being treated at the clinic. The district court granted summary judgment for the clinic and the physicians, concluding that Janet had presented insufficient facts to support the proximate cause element of her claim. Janet appeals, claiming she was entitled to an inference...

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