JEFFERSON ONCOLOGY v. LA. HEALTH SERV.& INDEM. CO.

Nos. 88-CA-698, 88-CA-704.

545 So.2d 1125 (1989)

JEFFERSON ONCOLOGY v. LA. HEALTH SERVICES & INDEMNITY COMPANY D/B/A Blue Cross of Louisiana. METAIRIE RADIOTHERAPY ASSOCIATES v. LA. HEALTH SERVICES & INDEMNITY COMPANY D/B/A Blue Cross of Louisiana.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 17, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund W. Golden, Kenneth C. Fonte, Richard D. Faulkner, Don C. Gardner, Golden & Fonte, PLC, Metairie, for plaintiff-appellee Metairie Radiotherapy Associates.

David G. Radlauer (A.C.), Charles W. Lane, III, John J. Weigel, Harry S. Hardin, III, Richard J. Tyler, Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant Louisiana Health Services and Indem. Co. d/b/a Blue Cross of Louisiana.

Before KLIEBERT, GRISBAUM and DUFRESNE, JJ.


KLIEBERT, Judge.

The plaintiff, Metairie Radiotherapy Associates (Metairie) is a health care provider1 who sued defendant, Louisiana Health Services & Indemnity Company, d/b/a Blue Cross of Louisiana (Blue Cross), the insurer of patients served by plaintiff, for penalties and attorney fees for failure to timely pay claims submitted to them within the thirty days provided for in LSA-R.S. 22:657(A).2 The...

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