Lambert v. Sisters of Mercy Health Corp.

UHLENHOPP, Presiding Justice.

This appeal in a medical malpractice case presents several issues for consideration: whether plaintiffs Martin C. and Cynthia Lambert generated a jury question on proximate cause; whether the trial court erred in excluding the testimony of an expert witness where co-defendant doctors properly identified the witness but were discharged on a directed verdict thus requiring the remaining defendant hospital to call the witness; and whether an Iowa statute partially abrogating the collateral source rule is unconstitutional as applied to this ease.

We present the facts…