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WILLIAMS v. SPRING HILL MEMORIAL HOSP.

1930160.

646 So.2d 1373 (1994)

Phtruda WILLIAMS and Floyd Williams, Jr. v. SPRING HILL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

September 16, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward L. Hardin, Jr. and Jill T. Karle of Hardin & Hawkins, Birmingham, for appellants.

Michael K. Wright and Sybil Vogtle Abbot of Starnes & Atchison, Birmingham, for appellee.

MADDOX, Justice.

The plaintiffs appeal from a summary judgment in a medical malpractice case. The sole issue is one this Court has considered before: Whether Alabama should abandon its traditional rules of proximate cause and recognize the "loss of chance doctrine." In McAfee v. Baptist Medical Center, 641 So.2d 265 (Ala.1994), this Court considered cases involving a factual setting quite similar to the one presented here...

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