Son v. Ashland Community Healthcare Services

This appeal arises out of a jury verdict in a wrongful death case against two physicians. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff, assigning fault to defendants, decedent, and decedent’s father. Plaintiff appeals, asking us to reverse the trial court’s judgment to the extent fault is attributed to decedent and decedent’s father, and to remand the case to the trial court for the entry of judgment allocating 50 percent fault to each defendant. Defendants cross-appeal, challenging the court’s (1) pretrial dismissal of an affirmative defense that decedent was comparatively at fault for…