Sorondo v. Batet

SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

In this medical malpractice case, the plaintiff contended that a serious neurological condition, tardive dyskinesia, from which she suffered had been caused by the defendant physician’s misprescription of a drug called Reglan. After the jury found for the physician, the trial judge granted a new trial in an order from which the de*541fendant now appeals.1 We reverse for the entry of judgment on the verdict.

While the order recites boiler-plate language that the “verdict was contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence,” the trial judge, in accordance with the requirement…