The state Superior Court has jurisdiction to hear all appeals regarding separate judgments in consolidated medical malpractice litigation, even though one of the judgments predated the others by almost two years.
In a 52-page opinion filed May 18, a three-judge panel affirmed the trial court’s opinion on all matters raised on appeal, upholding its decision to grant summary judgment in favor of a hospital and its parent company. But more than 20 pages of the opinion centered on the court’s ability to consider the questions raised on appeal by the plaintiffs, who had sued the hospital, an ambulance association and several others following the death of a 15-year-old girl.
