NOVAK v. COBB COUNTY KENNESTONE HOSP. AUTHORITY

No. 94-8403.

74 F.3d 1173 (1996)

Gregory Alan NOVAK, individually and by his next friend June Lowery Novak; June Lowery Novak, individually and on behalf of her son Gregory Alan Novak, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. COBB COUNTY KENNESTONE HOSPITAL AUTHORITY d/b/a Kennestone Hospital; Samuel D. Bishop; Bradley E. Henderson; John David Tucker; Richard G. Gray; W. Grady Pedrick; Jerry A. Landers, Jr. and Robert D. Ingram, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

February 14, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald T. Ridley, Brooklyn, NY, Billy E. Moore, Atlanta, GA, James M. McCabe, Pawling, NY, Larry R. Wight, Roswell, GA, Calvin A. Rouse, Augusta, GA, for appellants.

Y. Kevin Williams, Downey & Cleveland, Marietta, GA, Daniel S. Reinhardt, Alan P. Shor, Troutman Sanders, Daniel A. Kent, Judson Graves, Alston & Bird, Michael A. O'Quinn, Barnhart, O'Quinn & Williams, Atlanta, GA, Benny C. Priest, Roy E. Barnes, Barnes, Browning, Tanksley & Casurella, Marietta, GA, for appellees.

Before TJOFLAT, Chief Judge, COX, Circuit Judge, and WELLFORD, Senior Circuit Judge.


TJOFLAT, Chief Judge:

I.

In the early morning hours of June 18, 1989, Gregory Alan Novak, then sixteen years old, fell asleep at the wheel of his automobile, crashed into a guard rail on I-575 in Cherokee County, Georgia, and was seriously injured. Novak was removed from the scene by ambulance and taken to Kennestone Hospital, a facility operated by the Cobb County Kennestone Hospital Authority. There, it was determined that Novak had sustained numerous...

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