Legal Opinion
Regent Health Care Center of El Paso, L.P. v. Wallace
Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso)
Decided November 25, 2008No. 08-07-00321-CVPublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KENNETH R. CARR, Justice.
Regent Health Care Center appeals the denial of its motion to dismiss pursuant to section 74.351 of the Texas Medical Liability and Insurance Improvement Act. 1 For the following reasons, we remand for proceedings consistent with this opinion.
I. BACKGROUND
Spurgeon Wallace was an eighty-one-year-old man from Dell City, Texas. He suffered a hemorrhagic stroke on November 10, 2004. He was taken to the emergency room at Del Sol Medical Center (the “Medical Center” or the “acute care facility”) in El Paso. It was revealed that he had a hemorrhage and tumor in the…
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