Rees v. Intermountain Health Care, Inc.

HALL, Chief Justice:

Defendant Intermountain Health Care (“IHC”) appeals a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff for breach of contract by termination of elective heart surgery privileges at McKay-Dee Hospital, one of defendant’s facilities in Ogden, Utah. Defendant claims that plaintiff voluntarily waived his elective surgery privileges at an informal peer review meeting and that the jury verdict is not supported by the evidence.

Plaintiff J. Richard Rees, M.D., was granted privileges to perform both emergency and elective cardiac surgery at McKay-Dee Hospital (“McKay-Dee”) in 1971. In 1975, Dr.…