Joseph Igou v. Vanderbilt University

IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF TENNESSEE AT NASHVILLE August 19, 2014 Session JOSEPH IGOU, ET AL. V. VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY Appeal from the Circuit Court for Davidson County No. 13C1647 Thomas W. Brothers, Judge No. M2013-02837-COA-R3-CV – Filed March 27, 2015 This appeal asks whether a wife‘s loss of consortium claim, brought pursuant to her husband‘s underlying health care liability action, is itself a health care liability action subject to the pre-suit notice provision of the Tennessee Health Care Liability Act. The trial court granted the hospital‘s motion to dismiss, finding that the wife‘s…