Allison Downs et al. v. Orlito A. Trias, M.D. et al.: The state Supreme Court has upheld a $5 million jury verdict for a terminal cancer patient who claimed that her doctor failed to warn her that she had an increased risk of developing ovarian cancer.

Defense lawyers appealed a 2010 jury verdict on a host of grounds, one of them being that the lawsuit was not a medical malpractice case but rather an “informed consent” case.