Humphrey v. Ocean Springs Hospital

PRATHER, Chief Justice, for the Court:

INTRODUCTION

¶ 1. The present case requires this Court to determine whether a notice of claim delivered to the administrator of a subsidiary hospital pursuant to Miss.Code Ann. § 11-46-11 (Supp.1999) of the Tort Claims Act should be held to constitute valid notice upon the subsidiary’s parent hospital chain. This Court concludes that notice upon such an administrator may constitute notice upon the parent hospital, but we also conclude that the record in the present case is too sparse to make a final determination in this regard. We accordingly reverse the…