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CAVALIER v. MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

No. 2017-CA-00447-SCT.

253 So.3d 288 (2018)

Julia CAVALIER, Individually and as a Heir at Law of Lautain M. Scruggs, Deceased, Jannette Scruggs McDonald, Individually and as a Heir at Law of Lautain M. Scruggs, Deceased, and the Estate of Wilma Lautain Scruggs, Deceased v. MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AT GULFPORT.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 13, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLANTS: DAVID N. HARRIS, JR. , GULFPORT, CHRISTOPHER C. VAN CLEAVE , CLYDE H. GUNN, III , BILOXI.

ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLEE: WILLIAM E. WHITFIELD, III , KAARA L. LIND , BILOXI.

BEFORE WALLER, C.J., COLEMAN AND MAXWELL, JJ.

¶ 1. While recovering from surgery at Memorial Hospital at Gulfport, eighty-nine-year-old Lautain Scruggs fell after getting out of her hospital bed. Scruggs suffered a head injury (subdural hematoma) that required almost immediate surgery. Testimony at trial established that the previously independent Scruggs...

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