Pyle by Pyle v. Morrison

HIGHERS, Judge.

This is a medical malpractice action brought by a minor and her father, both as her next friend and individually. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in the amounts of $400,000 for the minor and $15,000 for the father.

On Sunday, June 22, 1980, Kimberly Michelle Pyle fell at a friend’s backyard swimming pool fracturing both bones, the ulna and the radius, in the lower left arm. She was taken to the emergency room of Baptist Hospital East by her mother where she was seen by Dr. Larry Morrison, one of the defendants in this case. The father joined them at the…