NV: Supreme Court Declines to Adopt Suicide Rule in Med Mal Cases

Bourne v. Valdes, ___ Nev. ___, ___, 559 P.3d 361, 363, 365 (2024) (declining “to adopt a rule that a patient’s suicide relieves a medical provider of liability for the patient’s death.”; “[I]nstead…the determination as to whether a medical provider is liable for a patient’s injuries must be resolved under established medical malpractice law.”; “If the patient’s suicide is a foreseeable consequence of the medical provider’s negligence, then the medical provider may be held liable. However, where the patient’s suicide is not foreseeable, then the suicide is a superseding intervening cause, severing the causal chain and relieving the medical provider of liability for his or her negligence.”).