Bioderm Skin Care, LLC and Quan Nguyen, M.D. v. Veasna "sandee" Sok

This Court has addressed the scope of the Texas Medical Liability Act on a number of occasions since its enactment in 2003. The Act requires claimants asserting health care liability claims to substantiate their claims with an expert report. Today, we determine whether claims arising out of allegedly improper laser hair removal constitute health care liability claims, and thus fall within the purview of the Act.

We recently established a rebuttable presumption that claims against physicians or health care providers based on facts implicating the defendant’s conduct during the patient’s care,…