FERGUSON v. LANKFORD

No. 63998.

374 So.2d 1205 (1979)

Marilyn FERGUSON v. Dr. Carl LANKFORD.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

September 4, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles L. Mayer, Mayer, Smith & Roberts, Shreveport, for defendant-respondent.

Wayne H. Carlton, Jr., Orlando G. Bendana, Law Office of Bendana & Carlton, New Orleans, for plaintiff-applicant.


DIXON, Justice.

Writs were granted in this medical malpractice suit to consider whether it had prescribed (since it was filed more than a year after plaintiff was informed of the cause of her illness), or whether prescription had been interrupted by the timely filing of a claim against a hospital said to be solidarily liable with the doctor. The doctor, defendant in this suit, had not "qualified" under the Medical Malpractice Act. (R.S. 40:1299.41, ff.); the hospital...

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