Williams v. State

J^FITZSIMMONS, Judge.

Amos Williams, Sr. died after surgery at a state operated hospital, Lallie Kemp Regional Medical Center (hospital). Plaintiffs, members of the Williams family, filed a suit for damages claiming medical mal*464practice. By supplemental and amending petition, plaintiffs added a claim of negligent hiring by the hospital. The trial court denied the hospital’s dilatory exception raising the objection of prematurity to the negligent hiring claim. The hospital appealed the denial of the exception of prematurity. We affirm.

Plaintiffs alleged that the hospital was negligent in hiring…