Personal Injury & Torts
Sep. 14, 2012
Punitive damages permitted in SLO medical malpractice case
A plaintiff alleging medical malpractice will be allowed to seek punitive damages against a San Luis Obispo physician and hospital after a favorable ruling from a superior court judge was affirmed by an appellate court.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A woman will be permitted to seek punitive damages in San Luis Obispo County Superior Court in a medical malpractice and fraud claim against a local hospital in what plaintiffs' attorneys have called an unusual court ruling.
Sara Taylor, whose husband, Tyrone Taylor, died at the Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center in San Luis Obispo in January 2010, brought a claim against the hospital a...
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