Legal Opinion
Roberts v. Stevens Clinic Hospital, Inc.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Decided June 12, 1986No. 16598, 16599PublishedCited by 109 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NEELY, Justice:
In this appeal we decide whether we should sustain a McDowell County Circuit Court $10,000,000 jury award in favor of the parents and two siblings of Michael Joseph Roberts, a 2V2-year-old child who died as the result of medical malpractice. We find no reversible error in the conduct of the trial, but we find it appropriate to enter a remittitur of $7,000,000.
Kenneth and Joyce Roberts are a young couple who were married in 1976. Joyce had two children, Pepper and Ritchie, before she and Kenneth were married. And even though Ken adopted Pepper and Rit-chie after the marriage,…
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