Matthews v. Clarion Hospital

¶ 1 This is an appeal from the trial court’s order entering summary judgment in favor of defendant/appellee Clarion Hospital (“hospital”). The trial court treated this case as if it were a traditional medical malpractice case and required appellants to provide a medical expert who would opine to a reasonable degree of medical certainty that hospital’s acts deviated from an acceptable medical standard and that such deviation was the proximate cause of appellant Sybil Matthews’ harm. When appellants failed to provide an expert report on the issue of causation in a timely fashion, the court…