Appell v. Muguerza

OPINION

KEM THOMPSON FROST, Justice.

A doctor’s patient and her mother sued the doctor asserting claims for assault based on the doctor’s alleged physical assault of the patient and her mother in an examination room at the doctor’s office. The plaintiffs allege that the doctor punched his patient in the nose and mouth, violently threw her to the ground, and violently shoved her mother. Based on their assertion that the claims are not health care liability claims, the plaintiffs did not file an expert report under section 74.351 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code. After the doctor…