UNDERHILL v. STEPHENSON

No. 87-SC-625-DG.

756 S.W.2d 459 (1988)

Shelby UNDERHILL and Virginia Underhill, Individually and as Co-Administrators of the Estate of Nicole Underhill, Appellants, v. R.C. STEPHENSON, M.D., Individually and R.C. Stephenson, M.D., P.C. and Murray-Calloway County Public Hospital Corporation, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied October 6, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald A. Jones, Law Firm of Donald A. Jones, Murray, for appellants.

Donald K. Brown, Jr., Boehl, Stopher, Graves & Deindoerfer, James M. Hardy, Hardy, Terrell & Boswell, Paducah, for appellees.


WINTERSHEIMER, Justice.

This appeal is from a decision of the Court of Appeals affirming a judgment based on a unanimous jury verdict in favor of the doctor and the hospital in a medical malpractice suit.

The questions presented are whether it was an abuse of discretion to refuse to allow an amendment to the complaint to bring in an additional party in the person of the nurse and to amend their complaint in regard...

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