Volz v. Ledes

OPINION

O’BRIEN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a ruling of the intermediate appellate court reversing a .$3,000,000 jury award to the plaintiffs for the wrongful death of their adult son, Robert Volz, caused by medical negligence. The jury apportioned liability at 10 percent negligence to Volz himself; 45 percent to the negligence of an out-of-state, non-party physician who first treated Volz; and 45 percent negligence to defendant Claude P. Ledes, an oncologist practicing in Memphis.

The pertinent facts are as follows. In 1987, while a college student in Memphis, Robert Volz was hired…