Uriell v. Regents of UC
Annotate this CaseA jury found the University of California San Diego Medical Center (UCSD) failed to timely diagnose Barbara Kastan's breast cancer in 2007 resulting in her death in 2010. The Regents of the University of California appealed the judgment in favor of Kastan's husband and children contending: (1) plaintiffs' expert lacked foundation for his opinion there was a reasonable medical probability Kastan would have survived 10 more years if she had been timely diagnosed and (2) the court failed to properly instruct the jury on the issue of causation when it gave the standard substantial factor jury instruction rather than a special instruction regarding proof of causation to "a reasonable medical probability." Upon review, the Court of Appeal disagreed with both contentions and affirmed the judgment.
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