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HEALTH PRESBYTERIAN HOSP. v. D.A.

No. 17-0256.

569 S.W.3d 126 (2018)

TEXAS HEALTH PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL OF DENTON, Marc Wilson, M.D., and Alliance OB/GYN Specialists, PLLC d/b/a OB/GYN Specialists, PLLC, Petitioners, v. D.A. and M.A., Individually and as Next Friends of A.A., a Minor, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Opinion delivered: December 21, 2018.

Rehearing Denied March 29, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian Gregory Jackson, Jackson & Carter, PLLC, Austin, TX, for Amicus Curiae American Medical Association, Texas Alliance for Patient Access, Texas Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Texas Hospital Association, Texas Medical Association, Texas Osteopathic Medical Association and The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

David M. Walsh IV , Kershaw Anderson , PLLC, Diana L. Faust , R. Brent Cooper , Cooper & Scully, P.C., Jennifer Marie Hamlett , William H. Chamblee , Chamblee, Ryan, Kershaw & Anderson, P.C., Dallas, TX, Grant D. Blaies , Gregory P. Blaies , Wesley Trevor Myers , Blaies & Hightower, L.L.P., Fort Worth, TX, for Petitioners.

Peter M. Kelly , Kelly Durham & Pittard, LLP, Dana Brooke Levy , Durham, Pittard & Spalding, LLP, Houston, TX, Christy Lee Wollin , Kirk L. Pittard , Kelly, Durham & Pittard, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, Maria Louise Wormington , Wormington & Bollinger, McKinney, TX, for Respondents.

This permissive interlocutory appeal concerns the Texas Medical Liability Act's emergency-medical-care provision, which requires claimants asserting certain medical-malpractice claims to prove "wilful and wanton negligence." We hold that the provision applies to claims arising from emergency medical...

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