Nevada Supreme Court Continues to Forget this is Nevada

The Nevada Supreme Court again proved that it is confused about what state it sits in.  This is Nevada, the state where doctors [allegedly] hand out Hep-C to their patients.  But the Supreme Court seems to think that some Nevada patients might have rights.  It's ridiculous is what it is.

The Las Vegas Sun reports:

In a 4-3 decision, the Nevada Supreme Court has ordered a new trial for a Las Vegas woman who sued Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center over the amputation of her lower left leg.

A district court jury originally found in favor of Sunrise Hospital in the suit filed by Linda F. Cook and her husband Frank.

Linda underwent back surgery in January 2000 and during the procedure a blood clot formed in her left leg that led to the amputation.

The medical malpractice suit said Sunrise failed to provide equipment that prevented Dr. John Ameriks from properly treating Cook. And the lack of the equipment increased the time her vessels were without oxygen in the leg.

At the conclusion of the trial, District Judge Valorie Vega accepted jury instructions proposed by the hospital that said a bad outcome in this case does not prove or even imply the hospital was negligent.

The court majority, in the decision written by Chief Justice Mark Gibbons, said the instructions were wrong because the jury was not clearly informed it can consider other evidence that Sunrise was negligent.

What?!?  Who do these Justices think they are asking the Nevada District Courts to properly instruct the jury on negligence law?  Do they think this is California or some liberal tort law paradise?  This is going to raise our insurance rates!