Patrick R. Miller v. Vanderbilt University

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In this health care liability action, after the plaintiff presented his case-in-chief, the trial court granted a directed verdict for the defendant hospital first on the claim for punitive damages and second on all remaining issues. The plaintiff appealed, arguing that the trial court erred: (1) in ruling that he had failed to produce material evidence that a specific agent of the defendant hospital had deviated from the standard of care and that deviation had caused an injury that would not otherwise have occurred (2) in denying his motion to reopen the proof and (3) in excluding evidence that he was uninsured. Discerning no reversible error, we affirm the trial court's decision.