Duffy v. Pendleton Memorial Methodist Hospital

PATRICIA RIVET MURRAY, Judge.

| plaintiffs, Licia and Terry Duffy, appeal the trial court’s judgment dismissing their claims against one defendant, Pendle-ton Memorial Hospital [“PMH”], as a sanction for the plaintiffs’ failure to comply with court-ordered discovery. For the reasons that follow, we reverse.

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The plaintiffs allege that Licia Duffy appeared at PMH on February 28, 1996, for the implantation of a venous access device, also known as a Life Port, at the recommendation of her oncologist, Dr. Leonard C. Thomas. Although Strato Medical Corporation [“Strato”]…