VAKIL v. MAYO CLINIC

No. 88-5008.

878 F.2d 238 (1989)

Mina Pourzand VAKIL, Appellant, v. MAYO CLINIC and St. Mary's Hospital, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided June 23, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mina Pourzand Vakil, pro se.

James H. O'Hagan, Minneapolis, Minn., for appellees.

Before McMILLIAN and FAGG, Circuit Judges, and HEANEY, Senior Circuit Judge.


PER CURIAM.

Mina Pourzand Vakil appeals from the district court's order granting summary judgment to the Mayo Clinic and St. Mary's Hospital in a medical malpractice claim on the basis of Pourzand Vakil's failure to file a proper Affidavit of Expert Review as required by Minn.Stat.Ann. § 145.682 (West 1989). We reverse and remand.

Pourzand Vakil filed this pro se diversity action against appellees in June 1987, alleging she received medical care at the...

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