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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH v. SIMMONS

No. 14-11-00215-CV.

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH AT GALVESTON, Appellant, v. MARVIN SIMMONS, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Fourteenth District, Houston.

Memorandum Opinion filed January 5, 2012.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

KEM THOMPSON FROST, Justice.

This interlocutory appeal arises from the trial court's denial of a plea to the jurisdiction, in which a state university hospital claimed it was entitled to sovereign immunity in a medical malpractice suit. Because the patient-claimant failed to allege a claim within the waiver of sovereign immunity under the Texas Tort Claims Act, the trial court erred in denying the healthcare provider's plea. Accordingly...

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