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PROVIDENCE HOSP., INC. v. WILLIS

Nos. 13-CV-920, 13-CV-921.

103 A.3d 533 (2014)

PROVIDENCE HOSPITAL, INC., Appellant/Cross Appellee, v. John WILLIS, Appellee/Cross-Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided November 20, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald L. DeVries, Jr. , with whom Craig S. Brodsky and Erin Christen Miller were on the brief, for appellant/cross-appellee. Janet A. Forero , Baltimore, MD, also entered an appearance for appellant/cross-appellee.

Sandra H. Robinson , with whom Jack H. Olender , Washington, DC, was on the brief, for appellee/cross appellant.

D. Lee Rutland , Annapolis, MD, filed a Statement in lieu of a brief for defendant William Brownlee, III, M.D.

Before BLACKBURNE-RIGSBY and EASTERLY, Associate Judges, and FARRELL, Senior Judge.

A jury awarded plaintiff/cross-appellant John Willis $650,000 in damages for an injury arising from negligence by nurses employed by defendant/appellant Providence Hospital (the Hospital) when, after a surgery, they failed to place on his legs sequential compression devices (SCDs) ordered by the surgeon. The Hospital moved to set aside the...

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