JOCELYN SEGOVIA, PA-C v. EIGHTH JUD. DIST.

No. 72416.

407 P.3d 783 (2017)

133 Nev.Adv.Opn. 112

Jocelyn SEGOVIA, PA-C, Petitioner, v. The EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT of the State of Nevada, IN AND FOR the COUNTY OF CLARK; and the Honorable Michelle Leavitt, District Judge, Respondents, and Madden Duda, a minor, by and through Jovan Duda, his natural father and guardian; Autumn Matesi, individually and as an heir to the Estate of Mary Ann Haase; and Robert Ansara, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Mary Ann Haase, Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

FILED December 28, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP and Daniel F. Polsenberg , Joel D. Henriod , Abraham G. Smith , and Erik J. Foley , Las Vegas; John H. Cotton & Associates and John H. Cotton and Katherine L. Turpen , Las Vegas, for Petitioner.

Murdock & Associates, Chtd., and Robert E. Murdock , Las Vegas; Eckley M. Keach, Chtd., and Eckley M. Keach , Las Vegas, for Real Party in Interest Madden Duda.

Seegmiller & Associates and Clark Seegmiller , Las Vegas, for Real Parties in Interest Autumn Matesi and Robert Ansara, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Mary Ann Haase.

BEFORE HARDESTY, PARRAGUIRRE and STIGLICH, JJ.


OPINION

NRS Chapter 41A.035 limits the liability of "provider[s] of health care" by capping their damages in medical malpractice actions to $350,000 and abrogating joint and several liability. The 2015 Legislature amended NRS 41A.017 to add physician assistants to the

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