Supreme Court of Texas

In a negligence action against a hospital, a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff is reversed where it was error to allow the jury to consider alleged malicious credentialing which was not supported by evidence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/27/2005
• Published 05/27/2005

Judges

• Justice HECHT delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice JEFFERSON, Justice OWEN, Justice O'NEILL, Justice WAINWRIGHT, Justice MEDINA, and Justice GREEN joined.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard P. Hogan Jr., Hogan & Hogan, L.L.P., Jennifer Bruch Hogan, Hogan & Hogan, L.L.P., Houston, Tommy Jacks, Mithoff & Jacks, L.L.P., Austin, Janie L. Jordan, Richard Warren Mithoff, Mithoff & Jacks, L.L.P., Houston, William Powers Jr., The University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Steven Goode, The University of Texas School of Law, Austin, for petitioners., Charles W. Bailey, Matthew T. Wall, Texas Hospital Association, Michael S. Hull, Hull Hendricks & MacRae, L.L.P., Austin, P. Michael Jung, Strasburger & Price, L.L.P., Dallas, Wright Brown & Close, LLP, Houston, for Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mike A. Hatchell, Locke Liddell & Sapp, LLP, Austin, Richard A. Sheehy, Sheehy, Serpe & Ware, P.C., M. Randall Jones, McFall Sherwood & Sheehy, Houston, Russell H. McMains, Law Offices of Russell H. McMains, Corpus Christi, and John S. Serpe, Sheehy, Serpe & Ware, P.C., Houston, for respondent.