Weiss v. Goldfarb

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

COLEMAN, J.

The issue raised in this medical malpractice case is whether a jury should receive an ultimate outcome instruction that, at the time of the alleged malpractice, the Charitable Immunity Act, N.J.SA. 2A:53A-8, limited a hospital’s liability to no more than $10,000. The trial court declined to give such an instruction. The Appellate Division in a published opinion concluded that the instruction should have been given. 295 N.J.Super. 212, 231-32, 684 A.2d 994 (1996). We granted St. Michael’s petition for certification, limited to the question of…