Arthur v. Zearley

Jack Holt, Jr., Chief Justice.

This is an interlocutory appeal from an order certifying a class action. Appellees Betty Jo Zearley and Herman Zearley successfully sought certification in circuit court of a variety of tort claims centered around medical malpractice arising out of the alleged improper surgical implantation, by Drs. James Arthur and Allan C. Gocio, of a product known as “Orthoblock” into the spines of several patients. Appellees Brad Cazort and Sandra Partridge, acting as administrators of the estate of Charlotte Phillips Cox, deceased, were permitted to intervene in the lawsuit…