St. Pierre v. Elgert

The plaintiff, Donna St. Pierre, appeals the Superior Court’s (Fitzgerald, J.) grant of the motion of the defendant, Stephen Elgert, M.D., for directed verdict in her medical negligence case. We reverse and remand.

The following facts are undisputed. On December 10, 1993, the defendant, the plaintiff’s physician, delivered the plaintiff’s second child. Following the delivery, the plaintiff began to hemorrhage. After examining the plaintiff’s uterus, the defendant determined that the placenta had partially separated from the uterus and that the hemorrhaging came from the placental insertion…