Richardson v. Miller

OPINION

WILLIAM C. KOCH, Jr., J.,

delivered the opinion of the court, in which

HENRY F. TODD, P.J., M.S., joined. BEN H. CANTRELL, J., filed a dissenting opinion.

This appeal involves a medical malpractice action stemming from the use of an infusion pump to administer terbutaline sulphate subcutaneously to arrest a pregnant woman’s labor. After suffering a heart attack shortly before giving birth to a healthy child, the woman and her husband filed suit in the Circuit Court for Davidson County against her attending physician, the supplier of the infusion pump, and others alleging that their…