VINCENT v. ROMAGOSA

No. 82-CA-1231.

425 So.2d 1237 (1983)

Rena VINCENT v. Dr. Jerome J. ROMAGOSA, et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

January 10, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald J. Block, J. Minos Simon, Ltd., Simon, Corne & Block, Lafayette, for plaintiff-appellee.

Mark Judice, Robert Lecky, Voorhies & Labbe, Lafayette, for defendants-appellants.


MARCUS, Justice.

This is an appeal, pursuant to La. Const. art. 5, § 5(D), by Dr. Jerome D. Romagosa, his partnership, and the individual members thereof from a judgment of the district court declaring the Medical Malpractice Act unconstitutional because La.R.S. 40:1299.47, the provision for a pre-suit medical review panel, makes it "inherently impossible to convoke a medical review panel of impartial panelists." We disagree and reverse.

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