Robins v. Katz

Defendant, Stuart Katz, M.D., appeals as of right from a Wayne Circuit Court jury verdict which found defendant liable for medical malpractice and rendered an award of $200,000 in favor of the plaintiff. The plaintiffs medical malpractice claim arose out of surgery performed by the defendant on plaintiffs right foot. On appeal, defendant raises four alleged instructional errors in giving the case to the jury which defendant claims require reversal.

At the time of the surgery, plaintiff was forty-one years old and suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. She was referred to the defendant, an…