Court reviews whether Defendants met the standard of care in a medical malpractice suit

SHERRI J. HAGER, et al., v. RAMSEY G. LARSON, M.D., et al. (Tenn. Ct. App. February 16, 2010)

In this medical malpractice action, defendants filed affidavits along with a summary judgment motion, setting forth that they had met the standard of care in their treatment of plaintiff, Sherri J. Hager. The hearing on the summary judgment was continued and plaintiffs were directed to furnish the Court with an affidavit to support their claims. Plaintiffs filed the affidavit of a physician who specialized in internal medicine, who opined that defendants failed to meet the standard of care in treating plaintiff, but stated repeatedly in the deposition that he could not offer an opinion on causation of any injury that would merit an award of damages, since he was an internal medicine specialist. The Trial Court granted defendants summary judgment and, on appeal, we affirm.

Full opinion available at:
http://www.tba2.org/tba_files/TCA/2010/hagers_021610.pdf