Jensen v. Intermountain Health Care, Inc.

STEWART, Justice.

This is an appeal from the dismissal of a medical malpractice action in which the plaintiffs’ decedent Dale Jensen died as a result of negligence on the part of an emergency room physician and the hospital. The plaintiffs settled with the defendant doctor and went to trial against the hospital. The jury returned a special verdict, finding plaintiffs’ decedent 46 percent negligent in causing his own death; Inter-mountain Health Care, Inc., 36 percent neg*904ligent; and the doctor, 18 percent negligent. Judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff Shirley J. Jensen and against the…