Rash v. Providence Health & Services

¶1 Plaintiff Robin Rash invites us to enter a path untraveled. She brings a medical malpractice claim, on behalf of her mother’s estate, in the form of a lost chance, when she has no expert testimony as to a percentage of a lost chance and only expert testimony that the medical negligence may have shortened her mother’s life. She has no testimony as to the length of the mother’s decreased life expectancy. We decline the request to follow an unchartered course, and we affirm the trial court’s grant of summary judgment on behalf of Sacred Heart Medical Center. A higher authority will need to…