Womble v. Singing River Hosp.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that emergency-room doctors were not immune from malpractice action against them because their treatment of the patient in question did not involve formulating or implementing government policy
• stating that government-employed medical personnel have no immunity for their decisions involving individual medical treatment but that they have immunity for decisions regarding the formulation and implementation of public policy
• referring to the principle that official immunity does not protect the exercise of medical discretion as the majority rule
• referring to the principle that official immunity does not protect the exercise of medical discretion as the majority rule
• “[S]uing public officials in their official capacities is tantamount to suing the State or its affiliated entities themselves.”
• applying two-year statute of limitations in § 15-1-36 (1) in action against county hospital arising from 1986 patient death

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).