Deanna McKeehan v. Delaware Neurosurgical Group

Summary

The Court affirmed the judgment entered after a jury found for the defendants in this medical-malpractice action. It held that the trial court acted within its discretion by refusing to add a proposed instruction concerning the relationship between surgical risks and negligence because the instructions, taken together, accurately stated the law and sufficiently informed the jury. The proposed language could also have confused the jury by undermining the instruction that medical negligence is never presumed.