CHAPMAN v. PRIMARY CHILDREN'S HOSP.

Nos. 860230, 860392.

784 P.2d 1181 (1989)

Jennifer CHAPMAN, By and Through her guardian Teresa CHAPMAN, Robert Chapman and Teresa Chapman, individually, Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. PRIMARY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, a hospital organized to do business in the state of Utah; Primary Children's Medical Center, a hospital organized to do business in the state of Utah; Intermountain Health Care, a Utah corporation, dba Primary Children's Hospital; IHC Hospitals, Inc., a Utah corporation dba Primary Children's Hospital; The Health Services Corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a former or present Utah corporation dba Primary Children's Hospital; Garth Myer, M.D.; L. George Veasy, M.D.; Karen Bowman, R.N.; Scott Wetzel Company, a Utah corporation; The Home Group, Inc., a foreign corporation; John Does I-X; and Black Corporation I-V (Resignated I.H.C., Hospitals, Inc., et al.), Defendants and Appellees. Jennifer CHAPMAN, By and Through her guardian Teresa CHAPMAN, Robert Chapman and Teresa Chapman, individually, Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. SCOTT WETZEL COMPANY, a Utah corporation; The Home Group, Inc., a foreign corporation; Primary Children's Hospital, a hospital organized to do business in the state of Utah, et al., Defendants and Appellees.

Supreme Court of Utah.

December 27, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathryn Collard, Salt Lake City, P. Richard Meyer, Robert N. Williams, Jackson, Wyo., for appellants.

Gary B. Ferguson, Gary D. Stott, Michael L. Schwab, Salt Lake City, for Garth Myer.

B. Lloyd Poelman, David B. Erickson, Salt Lake City, for Veasy, Bowman, and hosp. entities.

Stephen B. Nebeker, Anthony B. Quinn, Paul D. Newman, Thomas A. Quinn, Salt Lake City, for Scott Wetzel Co. and The Home Group, Inc.


DURHAM, Justice:

This appeal challenges three separate summary judgments granted to defendants in the trial court.1 Our review is restricted to the question of whether summary judgment was properly granted; we do not address plaintiffs' underlying negligence claims.

Rule 56(c) of the Utah Rules of Civil Procedure provides that summary judgment may be granted "if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions...

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