Memorial Hermann Hospital System D/B/A Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital v. Sylvia Galvan

OPINION

KEM THOMPSON FROST, Chief Justice.

The main issue in this appeal is whether a non-patient slip-and-fall claim against a hospital is a health care liability claim under the Texas Medical Liability Act. The appellant, a hospital, asserts it is. The appellee, a person allegedly injured while visiting a hospital patient, asserts it is not. When no expert report was timely served, the hospital moved the trial court to dismiss the claim with prejudice and to award the hospital reasonable attorney’s fees and court costs. On interlocutory appeal from the trial court’s denial of this motion, we…