Blondel v. Hays

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the defendant in a wrongful death case based upon allegations of medical malpractice. It presents two questions: (1) whether the trial court erroneously refused a jury instruction that equated proximate cause with the destruction of any substantial possibility of the patient’s survival, and (2) whether it was error to refuse an instruction that told the jury that the defendant was liable for all consequences naturally flowing from her negligence.

Although the defendant prevailed at trial, we must review the evidence pertinent to the plaintiff’s…