Legal Opinion
Lane v. Provo Rehabilitation and Nursing
Court of Appeals of Utah
Decided January 19, 2018No. 20160472-CAPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARRIS, Judge:
¶1 While Jackie Adams was a resident at Provo Rehabilitation and Nursing (Provo Rehab), a residential nursing facility, a nurse (Nurse) mistakenly gave Adams doses of three potent narcotics that were prescribed for another patient. Nurse then compounded her mistake by not informing anyone about it, thereby depriving Adams of the opportunity to be administered medicine that would likely have reversed the effects of the overdose. Adams later died due to the physiological effects of the overdose. His heir (Plaintiff) filed suit against Provo Rehab and Nurse.
¶2 During the lawsuit,…
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