Fields v. Curators of the University of Missouri

FENNER, Judge.

Appellant, Hazel Fields, appeals the order of the trial court dismissing, with prejudice, her petition for medical malpractice against respondents, the Curators of the University of Missouri (Curators), Steven Raster, M.D., Vickie Park, M.D. and Barry Gainor, M.D. (individual defendants). The Curators were dismissed on the basis of sovereign immunity and the individual defendants were dismissed because appellant failed to file affidavits sufficient to meet the requirements of section 538.225, RSMo 1986. 1

In her first point on appeal, appellant argues that the trial court erred…