Perry v. Magic Valley Regional Medical Center

KIDWELL, Justice.

Magic Valley Regional Medical Center (Hospital) appealed from the judgment in a medical malpractice case. The jury awarded plaintiff Pauline Collins Perry $1,550,000 in economic damages and $150,000 in non-economic damages for injuries to the sciatic nerve sustained from an injection that Hospital personnel administered in the gluteal area. We affirm and remand in part.

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FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Pauline Collins (now Pauline Collins Perry) (Perry) walked into the Hospital’s emergency room on June 4, 1994 for treatment of an infected cut on her small toe. Because Perry had…