VEGA v. JORDAN VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER, fs

No. 20170866.

449 P.3d 31 (2019)

2019 UT 35

Yolanda VEGA, Appellant, v. JORDAN VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER, LP, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Utah.

Filed July 19, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Troy L. Booher , Beth E. Kennedy , Michael J. Teter , G. Eric Nielson , Mark W. Dahl , Lena Daggs , Salt Lake City, for appellant.

Rodney R. Parker , Derek J. Williams , Nathanael J. Mitchell , Brian P. Miller , Frederick Mark Gedicks , Shawn McGarry , Kirk G. Gibbs , David C. Epperson , Salt Lake City, for appellees.

Justice Himonas authored the opinion of the Court in which Chief Justice Durrant, Associate Chief Justice Lee, Justice Pearce, and Justice Petersen joined.


On Direct Appeal

INTRODUCTION

¶1 For reasons still unknown, Gustavo Vega, an otherwise healthy forty-four-year-old male, went in for a routine gallbladder operation and came out in a coma. He died a week later. His wife, Yolanda Vega, brought a medical malpractice action against Jordan...

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