Samii v. Baystate Medical Center, Inc.

The trial judge correctly denied the defendant hospital’s motions for directed verdicts, Mass.R.Civ.P. 50(a), 365 Mass. 814 (1974), for judgments notwithstanding the verdicts, Mass.R.Civ.P. 50(b), 365 Mass. 814 (1974), or in the alternative, for a new trial, Mass.R.Civ.P. 59(a), 365 Mass. 827 (1974), in these actions for medical malpractice resulting in injuries suffered during and as a result of the stillborn delivery of the plaintiffs’ child, and for the wrongful death of that child. G. L. c. 229, § 2.

1. There was no error in allowing the plaintiff, Dr. Samii, to testify as an expert in…