Victory in the Court of Appeals
April 5, 2010The Houston Court of Appeals recently upheld a trial judge’s decision in a medical-malpractice case. The appellate court’s opinion of March 18, 2010 (Clear Lake Rehab. Hospital v. Karber) upholds the sufficiency of an expert report that had been challenged on appeal. Writing for a unanimous panel, Justice Terry Jennings stated that the expert report satisfied the requirements of the statute. The court rejected challenges to the expert’s qualifications and to the expert’s opinion regarding causation.
The appellate work was done by Beck Redden partner David Gunn and associate Jas Brar. They collaborated on the case with Houston attorney Kevin O’Malley, who handled the case in the trial court. The opinion by Justice Jennings was joined by Justices George Hanks and Jane Bland.