Traffanstedt v. Humana Medical Corp.

Humana Medical Corporation, doing business as Humana Hospital Shoals ("Humana"), petitions for a writ of mandamus directed to the Honorable Inge Johnson of the Colbert Circuit Court ordering her not to conduct the trial against it before conducting the trial of a previous co-defendant, the estate of Dr. Thomas G. Holmes.

In an appeal from the circuit court lawsuit that gives rise to this mandamus proceeding, we held that the jury's verdicts in favor of Dr. Holmes's estate and against Humana were inconsistent, and we reversed the judgment based on those verdicts. We held that by an opinion…