McDonnell v. McPartlin

In this professional medical negligence trial two doctors were accused of failing to timely diagnose and treat John McDonnell’s hip infection, proximately causing his eventual death. While the defendants denied they were negligent and denied anything they did was a proximate cause of the injury, they also contended, among other things, a nonparty doctor’s conduct was the sole proximate cause of the injury.

The jury returned a verdict for the defendant doctors. This appeal requires us to examine the matter of sole proximate cause, along with other claims of error that include improper evidence…