Rodgers v. St. Mary's Hosp. of Decatur

On September 25, 1987, plaintiff, Kalan Rodgers, Sr., filed suit against defendant, St. Mary’s Hospital, in the circuit court of Macon County. The complaint alleges that the hospital failed to preserve for litigation all X rays taken of his wife, Brenda Rodgers, who had been a patient at the hospital for several days before she died there. Rodgers claims that the hospital’s loss of an X ray caused him to lose a malpractice suit he had filed earlier against his wife’s radiologists. The circuit court dismissed the complaint and Rodgers appealed. The appellate court reversed and remanded. (198…