Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-08-28 20:44:02.862093+00
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LARSEN, Justice,
concurring on rehearing.
The Texas Supreme Court has recently spoken on the issue of whether an abuse of discretion or no evidence summary judgment standard applies in reviewing the adequacy of expert reports under Tex.Rev. Civ. Stat. Ann. art. 4590i, § 13.01 (Vernon Supp.2001), and what a good faith effort to comply with the statute requires.1 The Palacios opinion holds:
[A] trial court’s decision to dismiss a case under section 13.01(e) is reviewed for abuse of discretion. We further hold that to constitute a good-faith effort to provide a fair summary of an expert’s opinions under section 13.01(0, an expert report must discuss the standard of care, breach, and causation with suffi*718cient specificity to inform the defendant of the conduct the plaintiff has called into question and to provide a basis for the trial court to conclude that the claims have merit.2
Palacios clearly requires a discussion of causation that is absent in Dr. Martinez’s report. I therefore agree that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in dismissing with prejudice as required by the statute. For these reasons, I concur in the majority’s conclusion that there was no reversible error.

. American Transitional Centers of Texas, Inc. v. Palacios, 46 S.W.3d 873, 877-78 (Tex.2001).

. Id. 46 S.W.3d at 875-76.