GUIDRY v. FEDERLINE

Nos. 90-CA-332, 90-CA-333.

581 So.2d 398 (1991)

Linda Marie Diebel GUIDRY, Individually and on Behalf of her Minor Children Stephanie Elizabeth Guidry, Melinda Anne Guidry and Nicholas Philip Guidry v. Michael FEDERLINE, M.D., H.P. Faust, M.D., Carol Grannon, R.N., Cathy Buhler, R.N., East Jefferson General Hospital and Jefferson Emergency Consultants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

June 5, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Monica T. Suprenant, Dennis M. LaBorde, Stacy C. Wheat, Metairie, for plaintiff-appellant.

John A. Stewart, Jr., Hulse, Nelson & Wanek, New Orleans, for defendants-appellants Cathy L. Buhler and American Cas. Co. of Reading, Pennsylvania.

Lawrence L. McNamara, James G. Perdigao, Adams & Reese, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee East Jefferson Emergency Consultants.

Before BOWES, GAUDIN and GOTHARD, JJ.


GAUDIN, Judge.

This is an appeal by the surviving wife and children of Melvin R. Guidry, who died of severe coronary artery disease several hours after his chest pains had been wrongfully diagnosed as a muscle strain by a physician in East Jefferson General Hospital's emergency room.

Appellants filed a tort suit in the 24th Judicial District Court. Among the named defendants was East Jefferson Emergency Consultants (EJEC), an unincorporated association of...

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