San Antonio Regional Hospital will be cleared from a wrongful death case after the California Court of Appeal found on May 3 that the plaintiff’s expert witness, a nurse anesthesiologist, is not qualified to offer testimony.
The previously unpublished ruling was published May 28.
Joseph Musharbash sued the Upland hospital after his son Michael died while being treated for a traumatic brain injury.
Musharbash claimed that the hospital provided inadequate care by failing to properly evaluate and respond to his son’s injuries.
San Antonio Regional moved for summary judgment, based on the declarations of two doctors who believed that Michael had received adequate treatment. In opposition,
