Gunn v. Richmond Community Hospital, Inc.

This appeal arises in a negligence action for medical malpractice instituted by the guardian of an incapacitated person. The question presented is whether a circuit court is authorized to force the guardian to accept an offer of compromise over the objection of the guardian and his attorneys.

On September 10, 1981, Jannie Lee Jackson was injured while a surgical patient in a hospital operated by appellee Richmond Community Hospital, Inc. At the time, she was under the care and treatment of two physicians, a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology and an anesthesiologist. The patient became…