McGUFFEY v. HALL


557 S.W.2d 401 (1977)

Harold B. McGUFFEY, etc., et al., Appellants, v. William W. HALL, M. D., et al., Appellees. William W. HALL, M. D., et al., Cross-Appellants, v. Harold B. McGUFFEY, etc., et al., Cross-Appellees. John B. FLOYD, Jr., M. D., et al., Cross-Appellants, v. W. Neville CAUDILL, M. D., in his official capacity as President of the Kentucky Peer Review Organization, Inc., etc., Cross-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

Rehearings Denied September 16, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard S. Smith, Gen. Counsel, Joseph D. Hudson, Dept. of Ins., Frankfort, William E. Scent, Tarrant, Combs & Bullitt, Lexington, Victor Fox, Asst. Atty. Gen., Frankfort, for appellant and cross-appellee Harold B. McGuffey, Com'r.

Don H. Major, Mulhall, Major, Turner & Taylor, Louisville, for appellant and cross-appellee W. Neville Caudill, M.D.

Morton J. Holbrook, Ronald M. Sullivan, Jesse T. Mountjoy, Sandidge, Holbrook & Craig, P.S.C., Owensboro, for appellees and cross-appellants William D. Hall, M.D., et al.

Kent Masterson Brown, Joseph L. Arnold, Robert M. Odear, Lexington, for appellees and cross-appellants John B. Floyd, Jr., M.D., et al.

John C. Darsie, Jr., Gen. Counsel, Lexington, for amicus curiae University of Kentucky.

Carl L. Wedekind, Jr., Stites, McElwain & Fowler, Louisville, for amicus curiae Kentucky Medical Ass'n.

Edgar A. Zingman, Grover C. Potts, Jr., J. Baxter Schilling, Wyatt, Grafton & Sloss, Louisville, for amicus curiae Kentucky Hospital Ass'n.


PALMORE, Justice.

At its regular session in 1976 the General Assembly enacted a bill entitled, "AN ACT relating to health care malpractice insurance and claims." § 1 of the Act stated its purpose and § 11 its effective date. § 9 was an amendment of KRS 311.377, and the remaining eight sections became part of KRS Chapter 304, Title 10. In two separate declaratory judgment actions which eventually were consolidated...

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