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SEWELL v. DOCTORS HOSP.

No. 91-CC-1668.

600 So.2d 577 (1992)

Gordon D. SEWELL, et ux v. DOCTORS HOSPITAL.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

May 26, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Layne Hammons, Nelson, Hammons & White, Shreveport, for applicant.

Gerald Martin Johnson, Lunn, Irion, Johnson, Salley & Carlisle and Sidney Earl Cook, Jr., Cook, Yancey, King & Galloway, Shreveport, for respondents.

Larry M. Roedel and David A. Woolridge, Jr., Roedel, Parsons, Forrester & Koch, Baton Rouge, for Louisiana Patient's Compensation Fund Oversight Bd., amicus curiae.

LEMMON, Justice.

The issue in this case is whether plainitff's action against Doctors Hospital, in which he seeks to recover the damages he sustained when his hospital bed collapsed during a meal while he was recuperating from cervical surgery, constitutes an action based on medical malpractice under La. Rev.Stat. 40:1299.41-40:1299.48 so as to require initial submission of the claim to a medical review panel and to limit recovery to $500,000 and future medical expenses...

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