Ex Parte Coosa Valley Health Care, Inc.

789 So.2d 208 (2000)

Ex parte COOSA VALLEY HEALTH CARE, INC.

(Re S.W. Roper v. Coosa Valley Health Care, Inc., d/b/a Coosa Valley Health Care, et al.)

1990702.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

December 29, 2000.

Thomas R. Elliott, Jr., Paige Elliott-Pinson, and J. Michael Keel of London & Yancey, L.L.C., Birmingham, for petitioner.

James L. Wilkes II and Timothy C. McHugh of Wilkes & McHugh, P.A., Tampa, Florida; and Wilkes & McHugh, P.A., Birmingham, for respondent.

BROWN, Justice.

Coosa Valley Health Care, Inc. ("Coosa Valley"), one of the defendants in a civil action pending in the Etowah Circuit Court,…