Friedman Professional Management Co. v. Norcal Mutual Insurance

Opinion

SILLS, P. J.

I. Overview

In 1994, a lawsuit was brought against a surgery center and its owner, an oral surgeon, by a patient of the center for medical malpractice when, the year before, her surgery went horribly wrong, resulting in, among other things, vaginal bleeding. The patient’s bleeding was the result of the center’s having supplied the wrong pump and the wrong fluids for an operation to remove a polyp from her uterus. The center’s medical malpractice insurer defended that claim under a medical malpractice policy issued in 1993 and eventually paid the policy limits after…