Randolph v. ER Arkansas, P. A.

Tom Glaze, Justice.

This action was brought as a result of alleged medical malpractice that resulted in the wrongful death of Melvalene Hanson. Hanson’s estate sued appellees, alleging Hanson had complained of chest and arm pains, and after having been examined and released by Doctors J. R. Kendall and Judson Hout on two separate occasions within four days, she died of a heart attack at home only a few hours after her second release from treatment. The gravamen of the estate’s allegations of medical negligence was that the doctors failed to perform an electrocardiogram (EKG).

Before trial and…