DELK v. COLUMBIA HEALTHCARE CORP.

Record No. 990175.

523 S.E.2d 826 (2000)

259 Va. 125

Lillian Parker DELK v. COLUMBIA/HCA HEALTHCARE CORP., et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

January 14, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph R. Winston, Danville (Tricia Purks Hoffler, Norfolk; Willie E. Gary, Stuart, FL; Madison B. McClellan; Hoffler & Associates, Norfolk; Gary, Williams, Parenti, Finney, Lewis, McManus, Watson & Sperando, Stuart, FL, on briefs), for appellant.

E. Duncan Getchell, Jr., (Elizabeth Butterworth Stutts; H. Carter Redd; Jonathan T. Blank; McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, Richmond, on brief), for appellee Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation.

Mark S. Yacano (Linda B. Georgiadis; Wright, Robinson, Osthimer & Tatum, on brief), Richmond, for appellee Columbia Peninsula Center for Behavioral Health.

Present: All the Justices.


HASSELL, Justice.

In this appeal of a judgment sustaining a demurrer in a medical negligence action, we consider, among other things, whether the plaintiff pled causes of action in her third amended motion for judgment for the defendants' negligent failure to protect her from the intentional acts of a third person, the defendants' negligent failure to control the acts of a third person, negligent infliction of emotional distress, and intentional infliction of emotional...

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