Renown Regional Med. Center v. Dist. Ct. (freeman) (civil)

Summary

The Nevada Supreme Court granted a mandamus petition challenging orders that allowed a stand-alone ordinary-negligence claim against medical providers to proceed. It held that allegations concerning a patient's discharge, discharge-related communications, and discharge policies arose within the medical relationship and therefore sounded in professional negligence, even if some conduct had an administrative aspect. The court directed the district court to subsume the claim under the existing professional-negligence claim rather than dismiss it outright.