(April 6, 2020, 7:07 PM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — A California appeals court on March 24 affirmed a trial court ruling that reduced a noneconomic damage award to the mother of a 4-year-old child who died from late-diagnosed malignant melanoma from $4.25 million to $250,000. It held that the statutory limitation on noneconomic damages applied in an action against two physician assistants who were nominally supervised by a doctor (Marisol Lopez v. Glenn Ledesma, et al., No. B284452, Calif. App., 2nd Dist., Div. 2, 2020 Cal. App. LEXIS 248)....