· 12/19/2003
Gunter v. Laboratory Corp. of America
Citations
- 121 S.W.3d 636
- 2003 Tenn. LEXIS 1205
How courts have described this case
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- concluding that claim concerning adequacy of laboratory’s blood testing procedures was one for common law negligence
- concluding that claim concerning adequacy of laboratory’s blood testing procedures was one for common law negligence
- noting that “the medical malpractice statute may extend to acts of non-physicians such as nurses, when they are involved in the medical treatment of a patient”
- noting that “[t]o determine which limitations statute controls Gunter’s [the plaintiff’s] claim against the laboratory, we must first decide whether the claim sounds in medical malpractice or negligence” and looking to the complaint for this determination
- “To determine which limitations statute controls Gunter‟s claim against the laboratory, we must first decide whether the claim sounds in medical malpractice or negligence.”
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Judges: Birch, Drowota, Anderson, Holder, Barker
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