Clement v. Fulton

OPINION

EASTAUGH, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

Mary Fulton died several days after a hospital allegedly failed to diagnose and *929treat her medical condition, leukemia. She was survived by her husband and two minor children. The children contend that the superior court misallocated the wrongful death settlement proceeds paid by the hospital. Because the court did not clearly err in rejecting the children’s assertion that Mary Fulton’s life expectancy would have been only one year even if she had been correctly diagnosed, we affirm the allocation.

II. FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS

Mary Fulton was the primary…