STAPLER v. ALTON OCHSNER MEDICAL FOUND.

No. 87-CA-852.

525 So.2d 1182 (1988)

Susan Stapler, Wife of/and Everett STAPLER v. ALTON OCHSNER MEDICAL FOUNDATION.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

May 16, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Monroe & Lemann, Perry R. Staub, Jr., New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.

Don Almerico, Roma Plunkett, St. Rose, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before CHEHARDY, C.J., and KLIEBERT and DUFRESNE, JJ.


CHEHARDY, Chief Judge.

Defendant, Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation (Ochsner), appeals from a judgment denying its dilatory exception of prematurity. The exception was urged in response to a petition for damages brought by plaintiffs, Susan and Everett Stapler, for alleged injuries they received as a result of a slip and fall Mrs. Stapler experienced while a patient at Ochsner. We affirm.

The issue raised by the appeal is whether the Medical Malpractice Act...

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