Oregon Supreme Court Orders New Trial Over Refused Jury Instruction

(April 8, 2019, 7:26 PM EDT) -- SALEM, Ore. — The Oregon Supreme Court concluded April 4 that a trial court’s refusal to give a plaintiff’s requested jury instruction on an original tortfeasor’s liability for the subsequent conduct of another must be reversed and a new trial held on a medical group’s liability for a man’s death from respiratory failure (Dennis L. Sloan v. Providence Health System-Oregon, et al., No. S064748, Ore. Sup., 2017 Ore. LEXIS 397)....

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