In Re Tenet Hospitals, Ltd.

OPINION ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS

ANN CRAWFORD McCLURE, Justice.

This is a medical malpractice case in which the trial court denied the hospital’s motion to dismiss and granted the plaintiffs a thirty-day extension of time to cure deficient expert reports. The hospital has also filed an interlocutory appeal based upon the same allegations. This mandamus action was brought as a precautionary remedy in the event we determined no interlocutory appeal was available. The causes have been consolidated for purposes of briefing and oral argument. In an opinion issued this same date, we have…