DARBONNE v. GUILLORY

No. 94-312.

649 So.2d 681 (1994)

Josephine DARBONNE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Elbert Lee GUILLORY, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

November 2, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nicholas Joseph Sigur, Lafayette, for Josephine Darbonne.

St. Paul Bourgeois IV, Lafayette, for Elbert Lee Guillory.

Graham Newton Smith, Lafayette, for Commercial Union Ins. Co.

Before DOUCET, PETERS and BERTRAND, JJ.


DOUCET, Judge.

The question before us in this case is whether plaintiff's attorney in a worker's compensation suit committed malpractice in that he failed to timely file suit where he was actively involved in settlement negotiations on and subsequent to the prescriptive date.

Josephine Darbonne, plaintiff herein, allegedly incurred psychological injuries as the result of an incident which occurred on October 26, 1987, at her place of employment. She retained...

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