Opinion Intracare Hospital North v. Campbell Ex Rel. Brown

OPINION

TIM TAFT, Justice.

This is an interlocutory appeal from the partial denial of a motion to dismiss health-care-liability claims for failure timely to file an expert report. See Tex. Crv. PRAC. & Rem.Code Ann. §§ 51.014(9) (Vernon Supp.2006). Appellee, Cindy Campbell, filed the relevant health-care-liability claim on behalf of her adult son, Frank Brown, as his next friend. Campbell was later appointed Brown’s guardian, after which time she amended her petition to assert the claims as Brown’s guardian. Campbell filed an expert report more than 120 days from the filing of her claims…