the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center v. Vicki M. King

OPINION

TRACY CHRISTOPHER, Justice.

In the primary question in this interlocutory appeal, we determine whether a state university’s cancer-treatment center waived sovereign immunity to a patient’s claims that she was injured by allegedly falling from a hospital bed after the nurse monitoring her care raised the upper side rails on the patient’s bed, but did not raise the lower side rails. We conclude that these allegations should not be characterized as a complaint about the use of tangi ble personal property for which immunity is waived, but as a complaint about the exercise of medical…