Legal Opinion
Licudine v. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
California Court of Appeal
Decided September 29, 2016No. B268130PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
HOFFSTADT, J.—
During her senior year of college, plaintiff Dionne Licudine (plaintiff) suffered injury during a gallbladder surgery that will have lifelong repercussions. She sued for malpractice, and sought damages for the resulting diminution in her earning capacity. Before such damages may be awarded, a jury must (1) find the injury that the plaintiff sustained will result in a loss of earning capacity, and (2) assign a value to that loss by comparing what the plaintiff could have earned without the injury to what she can still earn with the injury. (See Fein v. Permanente Medical…
2Cases cited74 opinions
- Sargon Enterprises, Inc. v. University of Southern CaliforniaCalifornia Supreme Court · 2012
- Zibbell v. Southern Pacific Co.California Supreme Court · 1911
- Mercer v. PerezCalifornia Supreme Court · 1968
- Small v. Fritz Companies, Inc.California Supreme Court · 2003
- Fein v. Permanente Medical GroupCalifornia Supreme Court · 1985
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3Cited by31 opinions
- Atkins v. City of Los AngelesCalifornia Court of Appeal · 2017
- Echeverria v. Johnson, California Court of Appeal, 5th District2019
- Licudine v. Cedars-Sinai Med. Ctr., California Court of Appeal, 5th District2019
- Lewis v. Ukran, California Court of Appeal, 5th District2019
- Martinez v. Dep't of Health Care Servs., California Court of Appeal, 5th District2017
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