Blanton v. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, Inc.

ARNOLD, Judge.

The trial court granted the 12(b)(6) motion on the ground that Jones v. New Hanover Hospital, 55 N.C. App. 545, 286 S.E. 2d 374, disc. rev. denied, 305 N.C. 586, 292 S.E. 2d 570 (1982), barred all claims of corporate negligence arising before 5 February 1980, the filing date of the decision in Bost v. Riley, 44 N.C. App. 638, 262 S.E. 2d 391, disc. rev. denied, 300 N.C. 194, 269 S.E. 2d 621 (1980). Plaintiff contends that the trial court misconstrued the meaning of Jones and improperly dismissed her cause of action. We agree.

In Bost this Court expressly recognized for the first…