Larrimore v. Hospital Corp. of America

These appeals, from summary judgments made final pursuant to Rule 54(b), A.R.Civ.P., involve four consolidated, but unrelated, medical malpractice cases. All four cases name,inter alia, Hospital Corporation of America ("HCA") as a defendant. Two of the cases (Nos. 85-1347 and 85-1348) name, inter alia, HCA Management Company, Inc. ("HMC"), a wholly owned subsidiary of HCA, as a defendant.

Because HCA is the only defendant in each case that does business in Mobile (the alleged negligence having occurred elsewhere), venue in the Mobile Circuit Court is dependent upon appellants' defeating HCA's…