DUFFEY v. SLEEP CENTER OF LONGVIEW

No. 06-19-00076-CV.

598 S.W.3d 711 (2020)

Jerry DUFFEY, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Bessie Faith Duffey, Deceased, Appellant v. SLEEP CENTER OF LONGVIEW and Baher Elhalwagi, M.D., Individually and d/b/a Sleep Center of Longview, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Texarkana.

Date Decided: March 4, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maria Louise Wormington , Wormington & Bollinger, McKinney, for Appellant.

Russell G. Thornton , Thiebaud Remington Thornton Bailey, LLP, Dallas, for Appellees.

Before Morriss, C.J., Burgess and Stevens, JJ.


OPINION

This appeal questions whether the trial court properly subtracted the amount of a pretrial settlement from an award of damages in a health care liability suit after a jury finding against a nonsettling defendant. Because a prevailing party is entitled to only one satisfaction for the same injuries...

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