BREWER v. HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES

No. 24645.

503 S.E.2d 17 (1998)

202 W.Va. 163

Lonnie Alan BREWER and Vivian Brewer, Plaintiffs Below/Appellants, v. HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES, INC., a Kentucky Corporation qualified to do business and doing business in the State of West Virginia, Health Management Associates of West Virginia, Inc., a West Virginia Corporation, Russell A. Salton, III, and Robert L. Salton as Co-Executors of the Estate of Russell A. Salton, M.D., deceased, Alice K. Tchou, Administratrix of the Estate of Robert J. Tchou, M.D., deceased, and Williamson Memorial Hospital, a Partnership, Defendants Below/Appellees.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided May 21, 1998.

Dissenting Opinion of Justice Workman July 17, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Teresa C. Postle, Charleston, for Appellants.

William L. Mundy, Perry W. Oxley, Amy C. Crossan, Mundy & Adkins, Huntington, for Appellees Hospital Management Associates, Inc. and Health Management Associates of West Virginia, Inc.


PER CURIAM.1

This is an appeal by Lonnie Alan Brewer and Vivian Brewer, appellants/plaintiffs below (the "Brewers"), from an order by the Circuit Court of Mingo County granting summary judgment to Hospital Management Associates, Inc. and Health Management Associates of West Virginia, Inc., appellees/defendants below (collectively referred to as "HMA"). The circuit court's order found that HMA was not contractually bound to assume the liability...

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