United Hospital v. D'Annunzio

I concur in the result reached by the majority opinion. I write separately to explicate what I understand to be the limited effect of the majority opinion. In those instances in which there is a claim, contractual or quasi-contractual, against the county, which the county has refused to pay, the claimant may sue the county directly without appealing the denial of the claim. Insofar as the majority opinion adopts the rationale of the Kansas Court of Appeals in Concannon v. Board of County Comm’rs of Linn County, 6 Kan.App.2d 20, 626 P.2d 798 (1981), as applied to such claims against the…