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.

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