Table 2.
50-state survey of the “loss of chance” medical malpractice doctrine
| As per Guest, Schap, and Tran36 |
As per Wagner and Meyer |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Status | No. | States | No. | States | Basis for status change |
| Adopted | 24 | Arizona, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Utah, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming | 29 | Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Utah | Connecticut: (2008). Peterson v Ocean Radiology Associates, PC, 109 Conn. App. 275, 277–78, 951 A.2d 606. See also Superior Court of Connecticut (2014) Sawicki v New Britain General Hosp., 2014 WL 7156497. |
| Hawaii: (2018). Estate of Frey v Mastroianni, 142 Hawai’i 483 (Intermediate Ct App), certiorari granted, 2018 WL 6251441 (Nov. 29, 2018) | |||||
| Michigan: See (2009) Notes of Decisions for MI ST 600.2912a and Ykimoff v Foote Mem. Hosp. 776 N.W. 2d 114, 285 Mich. App. 80, appeal denied, 791 N.W.2d 123, 488 Mich. 988, reconsideration denied, 795 NW2d 819, 489 Mich. 875 | |||||
| Mississippi: (2019) Hyde v Martin, 264 So.3d 730, 732 and 734–735 | |||||
| Oregon: (2017) Smith v Providence Health & Services-Oregon, 361 Or. 456, 393 P.3d 1106; see also (2018) Tomlinson v Metropolitan Pediatrics LLC, 362 Or. 431, 412 P.3d 133 | |||||
| Rejected | 17 | Alabama, Alaska, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont | 15 | Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Idaho, Kentucky, Maryland, Maine, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont | Alaska: (2017) Tate v United States, 2017 WL 902850 (D. Alaska) |
| Maine: (2012) Samaan v St. Joseph Hosp., 670F.3d 21 | |||||
| North Carolina: (2019) Parkes v Hermann, 828 S.E.2d 575 | |||||
| Deferred | 4 | Arkansas, Colorado, Maine, Rhode Island | 4 | Arkansas, Colorado, Rhode Island, Virginia | Virginia: (2014) Wagoner v Commonwealth, 63 Va. App. 229, 256 |
| Not yet addressed | 5 | California, Georgia, Hawaii, North Carolina, Virginia | 2 | California, Georgia | |
Displayed is a side-by-side comparison of the categorizations made by Guest, Schap, and Tran 36 with those made in this work (as of November 11, 2019). The rightmost column contains legal authority for instances of status changes or discrepancies.