Legal Opinion
Simmons v. Yurchak
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided March 15, 1990No. 88-P-950PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKass, J.
On special questions, a jury returned a verdict that the defendant Yurchak, a physician, had not been negligent in treating the plaintiff Stanley G. Simmons. We discuss some evidentiary issues which the plaintiff has raised and then comment in comparatively abbreviated fashion on the residual appellate points.
On November 17, 1978, Simmons, then age sixty-nine, suffered a stroke and was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital. As a consequence of the stroke, Simmons is no longer able to work, he has trouble walking, and his field of vision is limited. During four weeks preceding the stroke,…
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