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Benchmarks: Psychiatrist escapes $200K verdict for patient’s suicide 

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    • February 6, 2013

The Texas Supreme Court has overturned a $200,000 verdict against a psychiatrist whose patient committed suicide four days after he decided she didn’t qualify for involuntary hospitalization.
“Because there is no evidence that [Beverly] Goss’s involuntary hospitalization by Dr. [Diego] Rodriguez-Escobar probably would have prevented her death, the evidence is » […]

Original post by http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2013/02/06/benchmarks-psychiatrist-escapes-200k-verdict-for-patients-suicide/

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