GUZMAN v. ST. FRANCIS HOSPITAL, INC.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For defendants-appellants, St. Francis Hospital, Inc. and American Continental Insurance Company, there were briefs (in the court of appeals) by John A. Nelson, Timothy W. Feeley and von Briesen, Purtell & Roper, S.C., Milwaukee.

For defendant-appellant, Wisconsin Patients Compensation Fund, there were briefs (in the court of appeals) by Steven J. Caulum and Bell, Gierhart & Moore, S.C., Madison, and William H. Levit, Jr., Michael B. Apfeld, and Godfrey & Kahn, S.C., Milwaukee, and oral argument by Michael B. Apfeld.

For the third-party defendant-appellant, James Sullivan, M.D., there were briefs (in the court of appeals) by Paul Kelly, Amy Doyle and Schellinger & Doyle, S.C., Waukesha.

For the third-party defendant-appellant, Richard Fitzpatrick, M.D., there were briefs (in the court of appeals) by Lori Gendelman, Jeffrey J.P. Conta and Otjen, Van Ert, Lieb & Weir, S.C., Milwaukee.

For the third-party defendant-appellant, Southeastern Emergency Medical Services, S.C., there were briefs (in the court of appeals) by Mary Lee Ratzel, Peter F. Mullaney and Peterson, Johnson & Murray, S.C., Milwaukee.

For the third-party defendants-appellants there was oral argument by John S. Skilton and Foley and Lardner, Madison.

For the plaintiffs-respondents there was a brief (in the court of appeals) by Ted M. Warshafsky and Warshafsky, Rotter, Tarnoff, Reinhardt & Bloch, S.C., Milwaukee, and Edward E. Robinson and Cannon & Dunphy, S.C., of counsel, Brookfield, and oral argument by Ted M. Warshafsky.

An amicus curiae brief was filed by David M. Skoglind and Aiken & Scoptur, S.C., Milwaukee, on behalf of the Wisconsin Academy of Trial Lawyers.

An amicus curiae brief was filed by Richard H. Middleton, Jr., Ned Miltenberg, and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Washington, D.C., and Merrick R. Domnitz and Domnitz, Mawicke & Goisman, S.C., Milwaukee, on behalf of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.