IN RE MEDICAL REVIEW PANEL OF HOWARD

No. 89-CA-337.

554 So.2d 87 (1989)

In re MEDICAL REVIEW PANEL OF Lucinda A. HOWARD.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

Writ Granted February 16, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence D. Wiedemann, W. Lloyd Bowers, Wiedemann & Fransen, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellant Lucinda A. Howard.

Robert D. Ford, Franklin D. Beahm, Thomas, Hayes and Beahm, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee Keith Van Meter and Associates.

Before CHEHARDY, KLIEBERT and GAUDIN, JJ.


KLIEBERT, Judge.

Lucinda Howard, plaintiff, devolutively appeals the trial court's granting of defendant's, Keith Van Meter and Associates', exception of prescription1 in this medical malpractice action. We affirm.

Plaintiff's husband, Frank Howard, was admitted to the Jo Ellen Smith Hospital emergency room on September 26, 1985 suffering from multiple stab wounds. He died in the hospital...

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