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40 U. Mem. L. Rev. 215 (2009-2010)
Poor Policy Stunts Tennessee Tort Law Again: The Need for Tennessee's Adoption of the Loss of Chance Doctrine in Medical Malpractice Litigation

handle is hein.journals/umem40 and id is 217 raw text is: Poor Policy Stunts Tennessee Tort Law Again: The Need for Tennessee's Adoption of the Loss of Chance Doctrine in Medical Malpractice Litigation BRIE D. WALLACE* I. INTRODUCTION ....................................................................... 218 II. Loss OF CHANCE DOCTRINE ................................................. 220 A. Origins of the D octrine .................................................... 221 B. Synopsis of the Policy Arguments Favoring the D octrine ..................................................... 223 C. Synopsis of the Policy Arguments Opposing the Doctrine ................................................... 224 D . The Approaches ............................................................... 226 E . D am ages ......................................................................... 232 III. KILPATRICK V. BRYANT: AN OVERVIEW .................................. 235 IV . POLICY SURVEY ..................................................................... 240 A. Public Policy in Favor of the Loss of Chance D octrine ............................................................ 241 1. Rejection of the loss of chance doctrine deters the primary function of the tort system ............................................................ 241 2. Any loss of a chance to survive or recover from an injury, no matter how sm all, has value ......................................................... 242 3. Health care providers are able to benefit from their mistakes without fear * Notes Editor, The University of Memphis Law Review; J.D., 2009, The University of Memphis, Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law; B.A. with honors, magna cum laude, 2005, University of South Carolina. I would like to thank The University of Memphis Law Review as well as Shannon Phillips, Ni- cole Huber, and Blake Neill for their help in editing this Note. I write this Note in memory of my best friend and my mother, Brenda Joyce Wallace. 215

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