LUCKETT v. BODNER

No. 2007AP308.

769 N.W.2d 504 (2009)

2009 WI 68

Robin LUCKETT as Special Administrator of the Estate of Tywanda Luckett, Tyquone Luckett, Joe Bohannon, Shenara Bohannon minor(s) by their Guardian ad Litem, J. Michael End and State of Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, Plaintiffs-Respondents, v. Aaron C. BODNER, M.D., The Medical Protective Company, Aurora Sinai Medical Center and Physicians Insurance Company of Wisconsin, Inc., Defendants-Appellants-Petitioners, Physicians Insurance Company of Wisconsin, Inc., Prithipal S. Sethi, M.D., Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals, Inc. and Injured Patients & Families Compensation Fund, Defendants-Co-Appellants-Petitioners, David Paul Altman, M.D. and Wisconsin Patients Compensation Fund, Defendants.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

July 7, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the defendants-appellants-petitioners, Aaron C. Bodner, M.D. and Physicians Insurance Company of Wisconsin, Inc., there were briefs by Paul H. Grimstad, Ryan R. Graff, and Nash, Spindler, Grimstad & McCracken, Manitowoc, and oral argument by Scott L. Howie (Pro Hac Vice) and Pretzel & Stouffer, Chartered, Chicago, Ill.

For the defendants-co-appellants-petitioners, Prithipal S. Sethi, M.D., Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals, Inc. and Physicians Insurance Company of Wisconsin, Inc., there were briefs by Steven P. Sager and Sager, Colwin, Samuelsen & Associates, S.C., Fond du Lac, and oral argument by Steven P. Sager.

For the defendants-appellants-petitioners, Aurora Sinai Medical Center and The Medical Protective Company, and the defendants-co-appellants-petitioners, Injured Patients & Families Compensation Fund, there were briefs by Lori Gendelman, Laurie J. McLeRoy, and Otjen, Van Ert & Weir, S.C., Milwaukee, and Maria K. Schneider and Gutglass, Erickson, Bonville & Larson, Milwaukee, and oral argument by Scott L. Howie (Pro Hac Vice) and Pretzel & Stouffer, Chartered, Chicago, Ill.

For the plaintiffs-respondents there was a brief by J. Michael End, Jerome A. Hierseman, and End, Hierseman & Crain, LLC, Milwaukee, and oral argument by J. Michael End.


¶ 1 SHIRLEY S. ABRAHAMSON, Chief Justice.

The defendants (physicians, hospitals, and insurers)1 seek review of an unpublished decision of the court of appeals affirming an order of the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County, Christopher R. Foley, Judge,2 in favor of the plaintiffs.3 The circuit court granted the plaintiffs' motion under...

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