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WILKINS v. METHODIST HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

No. 14-02-00883-CV.

108 S.W.3d 565 (2003)

Robinetta WILKINS, Appellant, v. METHODIST HEALTH CARE SYSTEM and the Methodist Hospital, Collectively d/b/a the Methodist Health Care System, Inc., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (14th Dist.).

Rehearing Overruled July 10, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jamie Annette Penton, Roy Alan Camberg, Houston, for appellant.

Oscar Luis Delarosa, Houston, for appellees.

Panel consists of Chief Justice BRISTER and Justices FOWLER and EDELMAN.

OPINION

SCOTT BRISTER, Chief Justice.

Robinetta Wilkins sued Methodist Health Care System ("the System"), owner of Methodist Hospital ("the Hospital") in Houston, alleging personal injuries caused by the temporary loss of a surgical instrument in her abdomen during her gall bladder surgery. One year after the case was filed and long after limitations had expired, the System objected that it was not the proper defendant but the Hospital was. Wilkins amended...

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