The Delaware Supreme Court has ruled that a $4.4 million jury verdict in a medical malpractice lawsuit should not have been apportioned to distinguish the defendant hospital’s liability in different roles.
The justices affirmed the damage award split between the doctor and the hospital but said the judge should not have asked the jurors to apportion the hospital’s liability between its capacity as the doctor’s employer and its independent failure to manage the doctor’s data collection.
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