Stan Praesel and Louise Herbert, Petitioners v. Raymond Johnson, M.d., Respondents

Summary

The Texas Supreme Court held that physicians do not owe a duty to third parties to warn an epileptic patient not to drive, nor a duty to report the patient’s condition to state licensing authorities, and reversed the Court of Appeals in part, granting judgment for the defendants. Justice ENOCH concurred in the judgment but criticized the majority’s reasoning on the duty to warn.