Jerry Coleman, as Administrator of the Estate of Virginia Coleman v. Anniston Hma, LLC, D/b/a Stringfellow Memorial…

Summary

The court affirmed the summary judgment entered for the Hospital in a per curiam disposition without an opinion. The accompanying special concurrence reasoned that the undisputed testimony of the standby physician established that notifying him would not have changed treatment and that any challenge to his credibility was not preserved or argued on appeal. The dissent contended that the competing expert testimony created a jury question on whether the nurses' failure to notify physicians caused or contributed to the patient's death.