Lake v. Northern Virginia Women's Medical Center, Inc.

In this appeal, we consider whether a plaintiff should be permitted to amend a motion for judgment at the threshold of trial to substitute the proper corporate defendant where the error in the original pleading was known to the defendants and actions taken by them misled the plaintiff as to the identity of the proper corporate defendant.

The material facts are not in dispute and primarily involve the various pleadings filed in this procedurally protracted medical malpractice case. For clarity, however, we will first recite those facts in the record which were ultimately disclosed by the…