Edmonds v. Chamberlain Memorial Hospital

OPINION

FRANKS, Judge.

Plaintiff’s suit against the Chamberlain Memorial Hospital for the death of her husband was dismissed by summary judgment.

On appeal, plaintiff insists there are disputed issues of material fact as to whether the hospital was negligent in hiring Dr. M. Dean Loftis as its emergency room physician and whether he was an agent of the hospital while serving as its emergency room physician.

On the evening of April 20, 1978, plaintiff’s husband was taken to the emergency room of defendant’s hospital where the emergency room physician, Dr. Loftis, examined the deceased, sent him…