Court Opinion

ID: 9682152
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 08:06:07.550469+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:37.667029
License: Public Domain

ABBOTT, Justice,
concurring.
I join Parts I, III, and IV of the Court’s opinion. I also join Justice Hecht’s concurring opinion holding that the Edinburg Hospital Authority is a unit of local government subject to the liability limits imposed by section 101.023(b) of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code. I do not join Part II of the Court’s opinion. Instead, for the reasons articulated in Part I of Justice Gonzalez’s dissenting opinion in this case and in Justice Kilgarlin’s dissent in Witty v. American Gen. Capital Distribs., Inc., 727 S.W.2d 503, 506 (Tex.1987), I would be inclined to overrule Witty and allow recovery for the wrongful death of a fetus. However, the Trevifios have not made any argument to this Court that Witty should be overruled. Accordingly, based on the arguments presented to us by the parties, I concur in the Court’s judgment as to Part II.