SCHMECHEL v. Dille

HORTON, Justice.

This is an appeal from a district court’s decision denying a new trial after it entered judgments on a jury verdict finding that Dr. Clinton Dilié, M.D., and Mr. Thomas Byrne, P.A., were not negligent in their medical treatment of Rosalie Schmechel, who died shortly after coming under their care at the Southern Idaho Pain Institute (SIPI) in 2003. Mrs. Schmechel’s surviving spouse and children (collectively referred to as the Schmechels) contend that the district court abused its discretion in not granting their motion for a new trial based on their claims that the court erred…