Philip AKA, Special Administrator of the Estate of Evangeline Aka
v.
JEFFERSON HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION, INC., d/b/a Jefferson Regional Medical Center; Kimberly Garner, M.D.; Betty Orange, M.D.; Randy Hill, M.D.; Shane Higginbotham, M.D.; Herbert Fendley, M.D.; William Freeman, M.D.; Harvie M. Attwood, M.D.; and St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company, Inc.
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May 10, 2001.
May 10, 2001.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Eubanks, Welch, Baker & Schulze by Morgan E. Welch, Little Rock,; and Cross, Kearney & McKissic, by Gene McKissic, Pine Bluff, for appellant/cross-appellee.
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, P.L.L.C. by: R.T. Beard, III, and Tim E. Howell, Little Rock, for appellees Kimberley Garner, M.D.; Shane Higginbotham, M.D.; and Randy Hill, M.D.
Womack, Landis, Phelps, McNeill & McDaniel, by Paul McNeill and Mark Mayfield, Jonesboro, for appellees/cross-appellants Herbert Findley, M.D.; William Freeman, M.D.; and Harve M. Attwood, M.D.
Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins, L.L.P., by: Overton S. Anderson, Little Rock, for appellee Erma Washington, M.D.
Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP, by Phil Malcom and John C. Fendley, Jr., Little Rock, for appellees Betty Orange, M.D., and Erma Washington, M.D., & Associates.
Bridges, Young, Matthews & Drake PLC, by Stephen A. Matthews, Pine Bluff, for appellee/cross-appellant St Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company.
Charles M. Kester, Fayetteville, and Christopher R. Heil, Little Rock, for amicus curiae Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association.
Williams & Anderson LLP by Leon Holmes, Little Rock, for amicus curiae Arkansas Right to Life, Inc.
Supreme Court of Arkansas.
W.H. "DUB" ARNOLD, Chief Justice.
The Court of Appeals certified this first-impression case for us to consider appellant's arguments urging the reversal of precedent. Specifically, appellant asks this court to overrule our holding in Chatelain v. Kelley,322 Ark. 517, 910 S.W.2d 215 (1995), that a viable fetus is not a "person" within the meaning...
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