Texarkana Memorial Hospital, Inc. v. Murdock

GONZALEZ, Judge.

This is a medical malpractice action brought against Wadley Regional Medical Center (“Wadley”) by the mother of a deceased child. The Arkansas Department of Human Services (“ADHS”) intervened to recover funds which it paid for medical expenses on behalf of the mother as a Medicaid recipient. The trial court rendered judgment for the child’s estate, but ordered that ADHS recover its medical expenses paid, and ordered that the mother take nothing. With one justice dissenting, the court of appeals affirmed but modified the judgment so that the mother could recover the difference…