IHC Heath Services Inc.'s win over medical malpractice claims over complications from a patient’s pancreas operations will stand following a federal appellate court’s ruling Wednesday.
Patient Jeffrey Robertson and his wife Wanphen had waited too long to file a lawsuit against IHC and other providers for alleged treatment errors that ultimately left him facing a last-minute operation to save his life, the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled.
The ruling affirms a medal malpractice suit brought in the US District Court for the District of Utah several years after the operation took place. That lower court correctly ...
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