Burless v. West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc.

DAVIS, Justice:

In these two appeals from two orders of the Circuit Court of Monongalia County granting summary judgment to West Virginia University Hospitals (hereinafter referred to as “WVUH”), the Appellants ask this Court to rule that the circuit courts erred in finding that no actual or apparent agency relationship existed between physicians employed by the West Virginia University Board of Trustees (hereinafter referred to as “the BOT”) and WVUH. We find no error in the circuit courts’ rulings that no actual agency existed. However, we find that the courts erred in granting summary…