NKC HOSPITALS, INC. v. ANTHONY

No. 91-CA-2755-MR.

849 S.W.2d 564 (1993)

NKC HOSPITALS, INC., Appellant, v. Dominic ANTHONY, Individually and as Administrator for the Estate of Margaret H. Anthony, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

March 19, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Alex Rose, Russell H. Saunders, Weber & Rose, P.S.C., Louisville, for appellant.

Frank E. Haddad, Jr., Gary R. Hillerich, Louisville, for appellee.

Before HUDDLESTON, McDONALD and WILHOIT, JJ.


McDONALD, Judge.

The primal issue in this medical negligence appeal by NKC Hospitals, Inc. is whether the negligence of the hospital was superseded by the negligence of the deceased's primary care physician.

The Admission to the Hospital

The decedent, Margaret Anthony, was in her first and only pregnancy under the primary care of Dr. Elizabeth Hawkins, her personal physician and an obstetrician.1 Mrs. Anthony was...

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