Kabran

Filed 5/20/

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

COURT OF APPEAL, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION ONE

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

BERTHE FELICITE KABRAN, D064133

as Successor in Interest, etc.,

Plaintiff and Respondent. (Super. Ct. No. 37-2010-00083678- v. CU-PO-CTL)

SHARP MEMORIAL HOSPITAL,

Defendant and Appellant,

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of San Diego County, John S.

Meyer, Judge. Affirmed.

Berman & Riedel and William Michael Berman; Kenneth M. Sigelman &

Associates and Kenneth M. Sigelman, Penelope A. Phillips; Jon R. Williams for Plaintiff

and Respondent.

Lotz, Doggett & Rawers and Jeffrey S. Doggett, Evan J. Topol for Defendant and

Appellant.

Defendant and appellant Sharp Memorial Hospital dba Sharp Rehabilitation

Center (Sharp) appeals from an order granting plaintiff and respondent's Berthe Felicite

Kabran's motion for new trial following a special verdict on a cause of action for medical malpractice in which the jury found Sharp was negligent in the care and treatment of

plaintiff's predecessor, Dr. Eke Wokocha, but that the negligence was not a…