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· 8/30/2005

Taylor v. Christus Spohn Health System Corp.

Citations

  • 169 S.W.3d 241
  • 2004 WL 1686653

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that expert’s report was deficient as to the standard of care for defendants when expert did not address the standard for each defendant or explain who was responsible for the alleged breaches
  • holding expert report deficient when it “[did] not explain how, if at all, this information would have altered the outcome”
  • providing that expert report must explain how each defendant specifically breached the standard of care and how that breach caused or contributed to the cause of injury
  • finding expert report deficient that failed “to state what each defendant should have done in order to meet the standard of care, what each defendant failed to do, and how such failure led to [the patient’s] death”
  • stating “[c]ollective assertions of negligence against - 11 - 04-24-00733-CV various defendants are inadequate”
  • “An expert report may not assert that multiple defendants are all negligent for failing to meet the standard of care without providing an explanation of how each defendant specifically breached the standard.... ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Yáñez, Rodriguez, Garza

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