Jennifer O'Connor v. Newport Hospital

OPINION

Chief Justice SUTTELL,

for the Court.

After a three-week trial, a jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendants, Newport Hospital (hospital), Gita S. Pensa, M.D., and Newport Emergency Physicians, Inc. (NEP) (collectively defendants), in this medical malpractice action. The plaintiff, Jennifer O’Connor, appeals from the Superior Court judgment, claiming that the trial justice’s erroneous admission into evidence of three documents during the voir dire of the plaintiffs standard-of-care expert, exacerbated by an allegedly “biased and incorrect” jury verdict form, was sufficiently…