HOLLOWAY v. SOUTHERN BAPTIST HOSPITAL

No. 8797.

367 So.2d 871 (1978)

Mrs. Margaret HOLLOWAY, wife of and Robert E. Holloway v. SOUTHERN BAPTIST HOSPITAL, Commercial Union Insurance Company of New York, the Continental Insurance Company and James M. Freeman.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

On Denial of Rehearing January 16, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence J. Smith, Michael A. Villa, Levy & Smith, New Orleans, for plaintiffs.

Monte J. Ducote, New Orleans, for defendant Southern Baptist Hospital.

Charles A. Boggs, Montgomery, Barnett, Brown & Read, New Orleans, for defendant Commercial Union Ins. Co.

Lawrence D. Wiedemann, New Orleans, for defendants Dr. James M. Freeman and Dr. Leslie Guidry.

Lilian M. Cohen, Charles R. Maloney, New Orleans, for defendant Mrs. Earline Karl.

Conrad Meyer, IV, Baldwin & Haspel, New Orleans, for defendant Mrs. Lola Breedlove Moore.

H. Martin Hunley, Jr., Lemle, Kelleher, Kohlmeyer & Matthews, New Orleans, for defendants Dr. James A. Rogers, Dr. Dermit L. Roux, New Orleans Anesthesia Associates and St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co.

Before REDMANN, STOULIG and SCHOTT, JJ.


Per Curiam On Denial of Rehearing January 16, 1979.

REDMANN, Judge.

Plaintiff wife had healthy arms when she entered an operating room for heart surgery. By the time she returned to her room after a week's stay in recovery room and surgical intensive care unit, she was experiencing left arm pain which heralded a left ulnar neuropathy with causalgia. Despite major surgical efforts at ulnar nerve relocation and autonomic nerve system excisions (including removal...

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