Hill Regional Hospital v. Runnels
Cases that cite this one
4 later published cases cite this decision.
- Wooten v. Samlowski (Tex. App. 2008)
- Claudia Garza v. Javier A. Saenz, M.D., Improperly Named as Javier A. Saenz, D/B/A Javier A. Saenz, M.D., P.A., and F/K/A Saenz Medical Center (Tex. App. 2010)
- Claudia Garza v. Javier A. Saenz, M.D., Improperly Named as Javier A. Saenz, D/B/A Javier A. Saenz, M.D., P.A., and F/K/A Saenz Medical Center (Tex. App. 2010)
- Carol Wooten v. Eberhard Samlowski, M.D. (Tex. App. 2008)
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Opinion
The surviving wife and adult children of Glendon Runnels filed this suit claiming Hill Regional Hospital 1 was negligent in failing to diagnose and treat a pulmonary embolism. As required by statute, within 120 days of filing Runnels served curriculum vita and expert reports signed by Dr. Jeffrey Kopita and registered nurse Debora Simmons. 2 Hill Regional Hospital moved for dismissal and attorney’s fees on the ground that the expert reports were inadequate, 3 but the trial court denied the motion.
Hill Regional Hospital filed a timely interlocutory appeal with the Tenth Court of Appeals, which dismissed for want of jurisdiction. 4 For the reasons stated today in Lewis v. Funderburk> 5 we hold that Hill Regional Hospital’s motion seeking dismissal and fees was a motion pursuant to section 74.351(b), and thus reviewable by interlocutory appeal when the trial court denied it. 6 The court of appeals erred by concluding otherwise.
Accordingly, we grant the petition for review, and without hearing oral argument, TEX. R. APP. P. 59.1, we reverse the court of appeals’ judgment and remand the case to that court to consider the remaining arguments raised by the interlocutory appeal.
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