UAMS Doubts a Man Who Falls 35 Feet Will Hurt More Than “A Little Bit”

UAMS held my son, Sean Lynn, in a $4,700 per day ICU unit based solely on the fact that an EMT (who was not a witness to the accident) wrote in a tiny space that the accident was a fall from about 35 feet from a ladder. Hint: The ladder was about 35 feet.

Now, UAMS general counsel senior associate Sherri Robinson concurred with the doctors. UAMS refused to answer interrogatories because they determined that they should believe the EMT over the man who fell. Well, they didn’t actually give a reason why; they said only that we must have an expert witness – we found the statute UAMS is probably basing its statement upon. A.C.A. § 16-114-206. It begins:

In any action for medical injury, when the asserted negligence does not lie within the jury’s comprehension as a matter of common knowledge, the plaintiff shall have the burden of proving:

(1) By means of expert testimony provided only by a medical care provider…

Here are some of the interrogatories, responses, and my meet and confer letters sent in the hopes of saving public resources instead of going through motion practice to compel removal of UAMS’s objections.