Legal Opinion
Kane v. Ryan
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided September 4, 1991No. 90-756PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FERREN, Associate Judge:
A jury awarded appellee Janet Ryan $1,150,000 and her husband, appellee George Ryan, $150,000 for Dr. James G. Kane’s failure to diagnose and treat Ms. Ryan’s Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, which resulted in an hemorrhagic stroke. Appellant, Dr. Kane, contends that the Ryans (1) failed to produce sufficient evidence of proximate cause, and that the trial court erred (2) in allowing certain expert economic testimony about Ms. Ryan’s future lost income, (3) in limiting Dr. Kane’s cross-examination for bias of one of the Ryans’ experts, and (4) in refusing to grant a pro…
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