Ramos v. Pankaj

The plaintiffs Marcia and Robert Ramos appeal from a judgment entered in favor of defendant Ram S. Pankaj, M.D., following a jury trial conducted in the circuit court of Livingston County. In this medical malpractice action, plaintiffs sought to recover damages resulting from the alleged failure of defendant to diagnose and properly treat a septic arthritic condition in Marcia’s left hip.

Several issues are raised by plaintiffs on appeal. The first issue to be considered is whether the trial court erred in allowing extrajudicial information to be received by the jury from which information the…