Emerson v. Bentwood

BARRY, J.,

superior court justice, specially assigned under RSA 490:3. The plaintiff, Maria Emerson, appeals the Superior Court’s (.Fitzgerald, J.) grant of the motion of the defendant, John Bentwood, M.D., for a directed verdict in her medical negligence case. We reverse and remand.

The plaintiff suffered from intermittent pelvic pain from approximately 1977 until March 2, 1994. The defendant is a surgeon who was brought in as a consultant by the plaintiff’s physician, Dr. Stephen D. Elgert. The defendant reviewed reports of Dr. Elgert’s examination of the plaintiff, laboratory data, a prior…