University of Mississippi Medical Center v. Foster

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

DICKINSON, Presiding Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Tamika Foster died after giving birth at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC). This wrongful-death suit followed. After a verdict for the plaintiffs, UMMC appealed, claiming that the plaintiffs produced nothing more than an unreliable autopsy report to establish medical negligence, and that the trial judge erred in refusing to allow two doctors to testify about the autopsy. But because we find sufficient evidence in the *150record to support the verdict and because UMMC failed to make a proffer of the doctors’…