COOPER v. SAMS

No. 93-215.

628 So.2d 1181 (1993)

Darrell COOPER, Sara Cooper, Henry J. Cooper, Gregory Cooper, Gary Cooper, Pamela Gale Cooper, and Cherlita Hall, Plaintiffs/Appellants/Appellees, v. Dr. John C. SAMS, Dr. Ulla Jo Ule, Dr. William Earnest Weldon, St. Frances Cabrini Hospital, Individually and for the Acts of its Nursing Employees, Dr. Ronald Lewis, and Nurse Rodger Lee McCain, Defendants, The Louisiana Patient's Compensation Fund, Defendant/Appellant, Taylor Pharmacal Co. and Janssen Pharmaceutica, Inc., Defendants/Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Writ Denied February 25, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alex W. Wall, JoAnn Purcell Levert, for Darrell Cooper et al.

Milo Addison Nickel Jr., Elizabeth Brooks Hollins, for Patient's Compensation Fund.

George Gore, Irene K. Walker, James A. Bolen Jr., Daniel G. Brenner, for Taylor Pharmacal Co. and Janssen Pharmaceutica, Inc.

Before DOMENGEAUX, C.J., and YELVERTON and THIBODEAUX, JJ.


DOMENGEAUX, Chief Judge.

Sara Cooper, individually, and as curator for her interdicted son, Darrell Cooper, filed this medical malpractice and products liability suit after her son sustained brain damage while a patient at St. Frances Cabrini Hospital in Alexandria.1 Named as defendants were Drs. Sams, Ule, Weldon, and Lewis, Nurse McCain, St. Frances Cabrini Hospital, Taylor Pharmacal Co.,...

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