Vaughan v. St. Vincent Hospital

OPINION

DANIELS, Justice.

{1} In this medical negligence case, we reaffirm New Mexico’s longstanding commitment to the nontechnical fair notice requirements of Rule 1-008 NMRA, “General rules of pleading.” Plaintiff William “Mack” Vaughan alleges that, as the result of a communication failure between a surgeon and a contract radiologist, Defendant St. Vincent Hospital failed to tell Vaughan about his cancer diagnosis. The district court granted summary judgment for St. Vincent because Vaughan did not specifically plead vicarious liability relating to the radiologist, St. Vincent’s apparent…