Texas Providers Face Med Mal Suit Despite Single Expert Report

Three Texas-based Kindred Healthcare-related companies aren’t entitled to separate expert witness reports in a medical negligence case where the same standard of care applied to all of them, a state court said.

Kindred Healthcare Operating Inc., Kindred Hospital Houston Medical Center, and Kindred Hospitals LP shouldn’t have had a medical malpractice case dismissed for the plaintiffs’ alleged noncompliance with the Texas Medical Liability Act’s expert witness notice requirement, the Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District, said May 9.

The TMLA requires a court to dismiss a health-care liability claim if the plaintiff doesn’t timely serve a health-care defendant with an ...