Cook v. SUNRISE HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER, LLC

*999OPINION

By the Court,

Gibbons, C. J.:

These appeals center on a “mere happening” jury instruction— an instruction asserting that the mere happening of an accident is, by itself, an insufficient basis for liability — given by the district court in a medical malpractice action. Initially, we must determine whether appellants preserved for our review their objection to respondent’s proposed jury instruction. We conclude that appellants’ objection to the jury instruction was sufficient to preserve the claimed error for our review because the objection placed the district court on notice that the…