DUTTA v. ST. FRANCIS REGIONAL MED. CENTER, INC.

No. 67,446

254 Kan. 690 (1994)

867 P.2d 1057

S. SAKUNTALA DUTTA, M.D., Appellee, v. ST. FRANCIS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, INC., Appellant.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed January 28, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard C. Hite, of Kahrs, Nelson, Fanning, Hite & Kellogg, of Wichita, argued the cause, and Charles E. Hill, of Wichita, was with him on the briefs for appellant.

Eric B. Metz, of Triplett, Woolf & Garretson, of Wichita, argued the cause, and John P. Woolf, of the same firm, was with him on the briefs for appellee.

Ronald Williams, of Morrison & Hecker, of Wichita, Paul G. Gebhard, Barry Sullivan, and Jeffrey T. Shaw, of Jenner & Block, of Chicago, Illinois, and Thomas W. Greeson, of The American College of Radiology, of Reston, Virginia, were on the brief for amici curiae The American College of Radiology and The Kansas Medical Society.

Jeffrey O. Ellis and Laura J. Bond, of Lathrop & Norquist, of Overland Park, and Thomas L. Bell, of The Kansas Hospital Association, of Topeka, were on the brief for amicus curiae The Kansas Hospital Association.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

SIX, J.:

This case arises from an employment contract dispute between an oncological radiologist and the St. Francis Regional Medical Center in Wichita (St. Francis). The jury awarded the radiologist, S. Sakuntala Dutta, M.D., $552,756 as damages for loss of income due to the breach by St. Francis of a written employment contract. The hospital appealed.

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