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NANCE BY NANCE v. WESTSIDE HOSP.

750 S.W.2d 740 (1988)

Paul Cecil NANCE, by his Guardian, Patsy NANCE, and Patsy Nance, individually, Plaintiffs-Appellees, and Stauffer Chemical Company, Intervening Plaintiff, v. WESTSIDE HOSPITAL, General Care Corporation, d/b/a Westside Hospital, Middle Tennessee Anesthesiologists, P.C., and Dr. Charles Cannon, Jr., Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Nashville.

Rehearing Denied April 5, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William S. Fleming, Courtney, Fleming & Holloway, Columbia, Thomas H. Peebles, III, Trabue, Sturdivant & DeWitt, Andree Kahn Blumstein, Trabue, Sturdivant & DeWitt, Nashville, for Paul Cecil Nance and Patsy Nance.

Kent E. Krause, Brewer, Krause & Brooks, Nashville, for Stauffer Chemical Co.

John S. Bryant, Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Bass, Berry & Sims, Nashville, for General Care Corp.

Byron R. Trauger, Leigh Hunt Greenhaw, Doramus, Gideon & Trauger, Nashville, for Middle Tennessee Anesthesiologists.

W.J. Michael Cody, Atty. Gen. and Reporter, Jennifer Helton Small, Deputy Atty. Gen., Nashville, for Attorney General as intervenor.

W.W. McNeilly, Jr., Steven D. Parman, Watkins, McGugin, McNeilly & Rowan, Nashville, for Dr. Charles Cannon, Jr.

OPINION

FONES, Justice.

In this medical malpractice case, which has not been tried on its merits, the threshold issue is whether worker's compensation benefits are included in a section of the Medical Malpractice Act of 1975 that gives health care providers a reduction in damages for benefits available to tort victims from several specifically named collateral sources "or any other source." If worker's compensation benefits are included, Nance and Stauffer...

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