MEDLIN v. CROSBY

89-1464.

583 So.2d 1290 (1991)

Betty Jean MEDLIN, as administratrix of the Estate of Alice Bell Shoffeitt, deceased v. Dr. J. Dell CROSBY.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

June 14, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael A. Worel and Andrew T. Citrin of Cunningham, Bounds, Yance, Crowder and Brown, Mobile, for appellant.

Robert A. Huffaker and Thomas H. Keene of Rushton, Stakely, Johnston & Garrett, Montgomery, and Phillip E. Adams, Jr. of Walker, Hill, Adams, Umbach & Meadows, Opelika, for appellee.


INGRAM, Justice.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment for the defendant "health care provider" entered by the trial court because the plaintiff failed to provide an expert witness who was a "similarly situated health care provider," as defined in § 6-5-548, Ala. Code 1975, to establish the standard of care alleged to have been breached.

On the morning of March 22, 1989, Alice Bell Shoffeitt was taken to...

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