Estate of Long Ex Rel. Smith v. Broadlawns Medical Center

CADY, Justice.

Sixteen people were murdered or killed in Iowa in 1996 as a result of domestic violence. 1 Jillene Long was one of the sixteen victims. This appeal concerns a negligence lawsuit filed by her estate against a hospital that treated the perpetrator of the crime for a psychiatric illness during the week preceding the murder. 2 Core among an assortment of legal issues presented on appeal and cross-appeal following the entry of a judgment for the estate is the proper theory of negligence to be applied in a case of this nature. Ultimately, we conclude the trial court properly…