Dyke v. Saint Francis Hospital, Inc.

OPALA, Justice.

The dispositive issue on certiorari is whether the trial court erred in dismissing the plaintiffs’ claim for failure to state a cause of action? We answer in the affirmative.

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THE ANATOMY OF LITIGATION

Judy Dyke [Dyke], a nurse employed by defendant St. Francis Hospital [Hospital], alleged that before October 1986 she was exposed to hepatitis in the course of her employment. The hospital directed her to the employee health department, where she came under the care of the defendant doctors, Robert G. Tompkins, Joe LeBlanc, George B. Caldwell, Stanley N. Schwartz and Robert Jordan…