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GAINES EX REL. HANCOX v. CUMBERLAND COUNTY HOSP. SYSTEM

No. COA07-1419.

672 S.E.2d 713 (2009)

Ajamu GAINES, Jr., a minor, By and Through his guardian ad litem, Scott HANCOX; and Ajamu Gaines, Sr., Plaintiffs, v. CUMBERLAND COUNTY HOSPITAL SYSTEM, INC., a/k/a Cape Fear Valley Health System and/or Cape Fear Valley Medical Center; Cape Fear Orthopaedic Clinic, P.A.; Karen Jones, M.D.; Thomas R. Tetzlaff, M.D.; and Johnny Kegler, a/k/a Jason Willis, Carolina Regional Radiology, P.A.; and Beverly A. Davis, M.D., Defendants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

February 17, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Faison & Gillespie, by Reginald B. Gillespie, Jr., Durham, and Conley Griggs, LLP, by Cale H. Conley, Richard A. Griggs, Atlanta, GA, and William S. Britt, Lumberton, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Cranfill, Sumner & Hartzog, LLP, by Norwood P. Blanchard, III, John D. Martin, and Katherine C. Wagner, Wilmington, for defendant-appellee Thomas R. Tetzlaff, M.D.

Helms Mulliss Wicker, PLLC, by Mark E. Anderson and Andrew H. Nelson, Raleigh, for defendant-appellee Cumberland County Hospital System, Inc., a/k/a Cape Fear Valley Health System and/or Cape Fear Valley Medical Center.

Manning, Fulton & Skinner, PA, by Robert S. Shields, Jr., and Katherine M. Bulfer, Raleigh, for defendants-appellees Beverly A. Davis, M.D. and Carolina Regional Radiology, P.A.

Ellis & Winters, LLP, by Alex J. Hagan, Raleigh, for defendants-appellees Cape Fear Orthopaedic Clinic, P.A. and Karen V. Jones, M.D.

STEELMAN, Judge.

Where plaintiffs failed to establish causation, the trial court did not err in granting summary judgment in favor of the healthcare-provider defendants.

I. Factual and Procedural Background

On the evening of 15 April 2003, the minor plaintiff, Ajamu Gaines, Jr., was brought to the Emergency Department at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center ("the Hospital") by his mother, Wyenda Phelps, with a wrist fracture reportedly sustained...

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