PIROOZI v. EIGHTH JUD. DIST. CT.

No. 64946.

363 P.3d 1168 (2015)

Alt PIROOZI, M.D., and Martin Blahnik, M.D., Petitioners, v. THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF the STATE of Nevada, in and for the COUNTY of CLARK; and the Honorable James M. Bdcler, District Judge, Respondents, and Tiffani D. Hurst; and Brian Abbington, Jointly and on Behalf of their Minor Child, Mayrose Lili-Abbington Hurst, Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

December 31, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cotton, Driggs, Walch, Holley, Woloson & Thompson and John H. Cotton and Christopher G. Rigler , Las Vegas, for Petitioner Ali Piroozi, M.D.

Carroll, Kelly, Trotter, Franzen, McKenna & Peabody and Robert C. McBride and Heather S. Hall , Henderson, for Petitioner Martin Blahnik, M.D.

Eglet Prince and Dennis M. Prince , Las Vegas; Eisenberg Gilchrist & Cutt and Jacquelynn D. Carmichael , Robert G. Gilchrist , and Jeff M. Sbaih , Salt Lake City, UT, for Real Parties in Interest.

Before the Court En Banc.


OPINION

On November 2, 2004, Nevada voters approved the Keep Our Doctors in Nevada (KODIN) ballot initiative. KODIN included the adoption of NRS 41A.045, which makes health-care provider defendants severally liable in professional negligence actions for economic and noneconomic damages. In this opinion...

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