Iowa High Court Remands Informed-Consent Claims In Heart Surgery Dispute

Mealey's (June 22, 2018, 9:39 AM EDT) -- DES MOINES, Iowa — A divided Iowa Supreme Court on June 15 said a trial court erred when it dismissed two informed-consent claims from a lawsuit alleging that a physician mishandled a Bentall heart procedure after failing to disclose his inexperience with the operation or the risks the procedure posed to the patient.  It reversed in part and remanded to the trial court (Alan Andersen, et al. v. Sohit Khanna, et al., No. 14-1682, Iowa Sup., 2018 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 62)....