ESTATE OF LONG v. BROADLAWNS MED. CENTER

No. 00-1769.

656 N.W.2d 71 (2002)

ESTATE OF Jillene LONG, by and through its Administrator, Dolores SMITH, Appellant, v. BROADLAWNS MEDICAL CENTER and Margaret Shin, Individually and in her Official Capacity as Employee or Agent of Defendant Broadlawns Medical Center, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

As Amended on Denial of Rehearing February 10, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfredo Parrish, Maggi Moss and Robert P. Montgomery of Parrish Kruidenier Moss Dunn Montgomery Boles & Gribble, L.L.P., Des Moines, for appellant.

David L. Brown of Hansen, McClintock & Riley, Des Moines, for appellees.


CADY, Justice.

Sixteen people were murdered or killed in Iowa in 1996 as a result of domestic violence.1 Jillene Long was one of the sixteen victims. This appeal concerns a negligence lawsuit filed by her estate against a hospital that treated the perpetrator of the crime for a psychiatric illness during the week preceding the murder.2 Core among an assortment of legal issues presented on appeal and cross-appeal...

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