Conservator for missing doc sued for med mal

The family of a Cookeville man who died last year after heart surgery has sued the conservator of the estate of a doctor who has been missing since last fall.

Relatives of Robert Evans first sued Drs. William Coltharp and Mark Aaron as well as Cardiovascular Surgery Associates and a number of entities affiliated with Saint Thomas Health Services last fall. That case was filed a few months after Coltharp was last seen paddling a canoe on Center Hill Lake. Following the appointment by Probate Court Judge Randy Kennedy in late 2011 of estate and probate attorney Gail S. Bradford of Harris Martin Jones, the Evans family can now move forward with its case against Calthorp.