Legal Opinion
Richard Allen Williams v. National Medical Services, Inc. Kevin Ballard
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 16, 2005No. 04-2665PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BENTON, Circuit Judge.
Richard Allen Williams appeals the district court’s 1 dismissal of his negligence action against National Medical Services, Inc. (“NMS”) and its employee Kevin D. Ballard, M.D., Ph.D. Jurisdiction being proper under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, this court affirms.
While a nurse at the Veterans Hospital in Columbia, Missouri, Williams was the subject of a criminal investigation into the death of several patients. The prosecutor retained NMS and Ballard to test tissue samples from 10 patients in order to determine the cause of death. Relying on Ballard’s initial report, the prosecutor…
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