Mahan v. Bethesda Hospital, Inc.

The plaintiffs-appellants, Samuel E. Mahan III and Kathleen Mahan, appeal from the judgment entered in favor of the defendants-appellees, Bethesda Hospital, Inc. and Eugene Elam, M.D., pursuant to a jury verdict in the trial of their medical negligence action. In their eight assignments of error the plaintiffs contend that the trial court committed errors as follows: (1) in refusing to instruct the jury on res ipsa loquitur; (2) in refusing to allow their expert witness, a chiropractor, to render an opinion on causation; (3) in striking the expert testimony of plaintiffs’ vocational economic…