Reiser Ex Rel. Reiser v. Lohner

HALL, Chief Justice:

Plaintiffs appeal the judgment of the district court, based on a jury verdict, which denied them recovery for alleged medical malpractice.

*95Defendants Richard Lohner and Howard Francis are medical doctors and the principal officers and directors of defendant Provo Obstetrical and Gynecology Clinic, Inc. (hereafter “clinic”). Plaintiff Eleanor Reiser was treated at the clinic in 1964 and 1969 by Dr. Francis while pregnant with her fourth and fifth children. Inasmuch as Mrs. Reiser was Rh sensitized,1 Dr. Francis determined to induce labor to deliver her fifth child at 38…