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LAURO v. TRAVELERS INSURANCE COMPANY

No. 4874.

261 So.2d 261 (1972)

Elena Anna LAURO et vir v. The TRAVELERS INSURANCE COMPANY et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana. Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 16, 1972.

Writ Refused June 15, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Darden, Screen & Trice, Phil Trice, New Orleans, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevant, Carrere & Denegre, John V. Baus, New Orleans, for defendants-appellees, Dr. Evelyn B. Nix and The Travelers Ins. Co.

Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, Dermot S. McGlinchey, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee, Ins. Co. of North America.

Before REDMANN, GULOTTA and BOUTALL, JJ.

GULOTTA, Judge.

This is an action for damages based on an erroneous diagnosis while Mrs. Elena Lauro Iseman was undergoing surgery at Mercy Hospital on November 14, 1968. Plaintiffs allege that Dr. Evelyn Nix, a pathologist, was negligent in wrongfully diagnosing tissue removed from a lump in Mrs. Iseman's breast as scirrhous carcinoma, a malignancy, in lieu of granular cell myoblastoma, a benign tumor; resulting in the removal of her breast. Plaintiffs further allege...

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