Summaries of Civil Opinions and Published Criminal Opinions Issued - Week of September 24, 2012

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Columbia N. Hills Hosp. Subsidiary, L.P. v. Alvarez, No. 02-12-00009-CV   (Sept. 27, 2012)   (Livingston, C.J.; joined by Gardner and Walker, JJ.).

Held: After this court found a doctor's expert report insufficient as to direct liability claims against the hospital and remanded the case to the trial court to consider whether to give the Alvarezes a thirty-day grace period to correct the deficiency, the trial court was authorized to consider their supplemental expert report from a hospital administrator because the doctor's report was found to be deficient as to those claims by this court for the first time in the first appeal, rather than by the trial court. Additionally, the hospital administrator's report was sufficient under section 74.351 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code.

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