Legal Opinion
Boles v. Parris
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided August 18, 2006No. 1030744PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
On Application far Rehearing
The opinion of June 16, 2006, is with-drawn, and the following is substituted therefor.
Robert David Boles, M.D., and South-eastern Surgical Specialists, Inc., the defendants in this wrongful-death action, appealed, challenging the jury's award of punitive damages against them.2 We affirm.
On August 17, 1998, Dr. Boles removed a cancerous part of Burl Herman Parris's lung at Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center ("RMC") in Anniston. The surgery itself went well, and Burl remained at RMC while he recuperated. Dr. Boles continued to treat Burl while Burl was a…
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