Sanchez v. Tucson Orthopaedic Institute, P.C.

OPINION

ECKERSTROM, Presiding Judge.

¶ 1 Appellants Lorenzo and Bertha Sanchez appeal from the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of appellees James Levi, M.D., and Tucson Orthopaedic Institute. The trial court based its ruling on the Sanchezes’ failure to comply with the statute governing preliminary expert opinion affidavits in medical malpractice cases, A.R.S. § 12-2603. Contending the statute’s requirements cannot be harmonized with the res ipsa loquitur doctrine, the Sanchezes argue, inter alia, that the trial court erred when it applied those requirements to their claim and…