Legal Opinion
Brown v. Koulizakis
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided June 14, 1985No. Record 820473PublishedCited by 101 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCompton, J.
In this medical malpractice case, we review the action of the trial court in entering summary judgment for the defendants at the conclusion of the plaintiffs evidence.
Stefan Alexander Mader died of a pulmonary embolism in 1978 in The Fairfax Hospital. In 1980, Mader’s executor filed this wrongful death action in the court below against appellees E. N. Koulizakis, an orthopedic surgeon, and Michael F. Ball, a specialist in internal medicine. The plaintiff alleged that each defendant failed adequately to examine, test, diagnose, and treat the decedent for pulmonary embolism.
In 1981, the case…
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