Supreme Court of Texas

The Medical Liability and Insurance Improvement Act section 13.01(g) grace period is available to cure timely filed but inadequate expert reports, but the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying a request for such grace period where the failure to file an adequate expert report was not the result of a mistake of law.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/23/2002
• Decided 06/19/2003
• Published 06/19/2003

Judges

• Justice JEFFERSON delivered the opinion of the Court.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Diana L. Faust, lead appellate counsel, Brent R. Cooper, co-appellate counsel, Cooper & Scully, P.C., Dallas, for petitioners Geoffrey S. Walker, M.D., Harry F. Goss, Jr., Renal Physicians of North Texas, L.C., Mid-Cities Nephrology Association, P.A., d/b/a Irving Dialysis Center and Mark Meiches, M.D., Charles G. Bell, Gwinn & Roby, Dallas, co-appellate counsel and trial counsel for petitioner Mark Meiches, M.D.


• For Appellees:
  
• John A. Scully, lead trial counsel, Bruce W. Steckler, co-trial counsel, Cooper & Scully, Dallas, for defendants Geoffrey S. Walker, M.D., Harry F. Goss, Jr., Renal Physicians of North Texas, L.C., Mid-Cities Nephrology Association, P.A., d/b/a Irving Dialysis Center., James W. Mills, Mills Law Firm, Charles W. McGarry, Law Office of Charles McGarry, Dallas, for respondents.