Pleasants v. Alliance Corp.

SCOTT, Justice:

The estate of Jennifer Pleasants, a fifteen-year-old who died within ten hours of leaving the emergency room of Women and Children’s Hospital in Charleston, West Virginia, after presenting herself for treatment with *42gastritis-type symptoms, appeals from a defense verdict. The assignments of error upon which Appellant relies include: (1) the trial court’s failure to permit a hearing on whether a juror gave false answers during voir due; (2) an equal protection violation resulting from allegations that Appellees1 purposefully eliminated females from the jury panel; (3) an…