Southern Health Corporation of Houston, Inc. v. Carol Crausby

FAIR, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Carol Crausby worked as an emergency room nurse at Trace Regional Hospital in Houston, Mississippi — until Dr. Victor Horn demanded that she be fired, and the hospital agreed. A jury awarded Crausby $80,000 from the hospital on her claim that its administrators had conspired with Dr. Horn to tortiously interfere with her employment relationship ... with the hospital. Although we find a challenge to the legal theory waived, we reverse and render the award because acquiescing to Dr. Horn’s demands did not amount to a conspiracy to tortiously interfere with Crausby’s…