Pugh v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance

Steele Hays, Justice.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment in a medical malpractice case. The trial court applied the decision in Weidrick v. Arnold, 310 Ark. 138, 835 S.W.2d 843 (1992), holding that the malpractice claim was time-barred. That holding is challenged on appeal and we affirm.

Joy Pugh, appellant, filed a medical malpractice suit in 1987 against Warner Brown Hospital and two doctors, James Weedman and Durwood Flournoy, all appellees. St. Paul Fire and Marine is the carrier for the hospital. The complaint alleged negligence in the treatment of Mrs. Pugh’s husband, resulting in…