NAIL v. OKLAHOMA CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSP.

Nos. 60678, 60091.

710 P.2d 755 (1985)

Sid Francis NAIL, By and Through his father, Don Francis NAIL, Jr., and Don Francis Nail, Jr., Sheila Nail, on their own behalf, Appellants, v. OKLAHOMA CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, operated by the Department of Human Services, an agency of the State of Oklahoma, Norman S. Levine, M.D., J.D. Parkhurst, M.D., James A. Glasgow, M.D., and the University of Oklahoma, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

December 10, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Norman, Oklahoma City, Mark Hammons, C. Elaine Hammons, Hammons & Hammons, El Reno, Ronald W. Horgan, Oklahoma City, for appellants.

George F. Short, George W. Paull, Jr., Short, Barnes, Wiggins Margo & Adler, Thomas H. Tucker, Andrew E. Thurman, Oklahoma Children's Memorial Hosp., Dept. of Human Services, Oklahoma City, Stanley M. Ward, Kurt F. Ockershauser, Susan Gail Seamans, Bd. of Regents of University of Oklahoma, Norman, for appellees.


SUMMERS, Justice.

This medical malpractice suit was brought on behalf of a small child, alleging negligence resulting in permanent brain damage. The demurrer of the defendant University of Oklahoma was sustained on the basis of sovereign immunity, resulting in appeal No. 60,091. The remaining defendants (Oklahoma Children's Memorial Hospital and three physicians) were exonerated by a defendant's verdict after ten days of...

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