Mann v. Cracchiolo

Opinion

BROUSSARD, J.

Plaintiffs, the surviving husband and three sons of Ada Crews Mann,1 deceased, appeal from summary judgments in favor of defendants in this wrongful death action and from denial of postjudgment orders. Plaintiffs’ complaint charged the UCLA Medical Center, 54 individual doctors, a radiology technician, the associate director of the hospital, and the hospital’s data processing manager and finance director with breaking the decedent’s neck, conspiring to conceal the existence of the broken neck, refusing to treat it, intentionally performing useless operations upon decedent…