BURLESS v. WV UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS, INC.

Nos. 31423, 31424.

601 S.E.2d 85 (2004)

215 W.Va. 765

Jaclyn BURLESS and Brinley Price, Individually and as Parents and Natural Guardians of Alexis Price, a Minor, Plaintiffs Below, Appellants, v. WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS, INC., a West Virginia Corporation; and University of West Virginia Board of Trustees, a West Virginia Corporation, Defendants Below, Appellees. and Melony J. Pritt, Individually and as a Parent and Natural Guardian of Adam Pruitt, a Minor, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc., a West Virginia Corporation; and University of West Virginia Board of Trustees, a West Virginia Corporation, Defendants Below, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided June 30, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alex J. Shook, Hamstead, Hamstead & Williams, Morgantown, Harry S. Cohen, Douglas L. Price, Harry S. Cohen & Associates, Pittsburgh, PA, for the Appellants.

Charles J. Crooks, David Z. Myerberg, Jackson Kelly, P.L.L.C., Morgantown, for the Appellees.


DAVIS, Justice:

In these two appeals from two orders of the Circuit Court of Monongalia County granting summary judgment to West Virginia University Hospitals (hereinafter referred to as "WVUH"), the Appellants ask this Court to rule that the circuit courts erred in finding that no actual or apparent agency relationship existed between physicians employed by the West Virginia University Board of Trustees (hereinafter referred to as "the BOT") and WVUH. We find no...

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