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FRANCIS v. MOWAD

No. 87-CA-610.

523 So.2d 8 (1988)

Jack and Rita R. FRANCIS v. Santir C. MOWAD, D.P.M. and Pacific Insurance Company.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

Writ Denied April 22, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Kevin Coleman, Linda A. Liljedahl, New Orleans, for plaintiffs-appellants.

H.F. Foster, III, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee.

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

DUFRESNE, Judge.

This is an appeal by Jack and Rita Francis, plaintiffs-appellants, from a judgment excluding an orthopedic surgeon from sitting on a medical review panel convened to hear a malpractice claim against a podiatrist. We agree with the trial judge that an orthopedic surgeon is not from the same class and specialty of practice as a podiatrist, as required by La.R.S. 40:1299.47(C)(3)(f)(v), thus we affirm.

Rita Francis has alleged that Dr. Samir...

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