Doctor’s Opinion Not Speculative.

A jury found a medical center failed to timely diagnose breast cancer in plaintiffs’ family member, resulting in her death in 2010. Plaintiffs’ expert testified that to a reasonable degree of medical probability, decedent would have survived ten years had she been treated early, even if she had stage 4 cancer in 2007. The jury awarded plaintiffs $548,911. The appellate court rejected defendant’s argument the doctor’s opinion was speculative, stating it was based on his experience and decedent’s medical history. The judgment was affirmed. (Uriell v. Regents of University of California (Cal. App. Fourth Dist., Div. 1; February 20, 2015) 234 Cal.App.4th 735, [184 Cal.Rptr.3d 79].)