The road through Texas appellate courts is littered with plaintiffs’ health-care liability claims and verdicts that have been reversed because of Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code Chapter 74, which contains most of the state’s most stringent tort-reform policies.
That’s why the Texas Supreme Court’s Nov. 30 decision in Aaron Felton v. Brock Lovett is remarkable: It reverses an intermediate appellate court decision that itself reversed and rendered a $742,701 jury verdict against a chiropractor for failure to warn about a procedure’s risk.
