Sanders v. Mt. Sinai Hospital

Plaintiffs are a hospital patient, her husband, and her daughter. They seek damages for the patient’s injuries, which they claim the defendant hospital and the defendant anesthesia assistant negligently caused during her surgery. The jury rendered verdicts for both defendants, and specifically found in an interrogatory answer that the anesthesia assistant was not negligent. The trial court granted plaintiffs’ motion for a new trial because the court concluded (a) it erroneously excluded important evidence, and (b) the jury’s verdict was against the weight of the evidence.

Defendants appeal,…