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AMBROSE v. NEW ORLEANS POLICE AMB. SERV.

Nos. 93-C-3099, 93-C-3110 and 93-C-3112.

639 So.2d 216 (1994)

Rosa Mae AMBROSE, et al. v. NEW ORLEANS POLICE DEPARTMENT AMBULANCE SERVICE, et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied September 15, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathy Lee Torregano, City Atty., Philip C. Ciaccio, Jr., Earl G. Perry, Jr., for applicant.

David Wallace Oestreicher, II, James E. Uschold, Oestreicher & Hackett, Richard Allen Thompson, Thompson & Lavender, Hon. Mack E. Barham, Robert E. Arceneaux, Gail N. Wise, Barham & Arceneaux, Margaret E. Bradley, for respondent.

Lawrence S. Kullman, David Robert Jefferson, for amicus curiae, Trial Lawyers Ass'n.

CALOGERO, Chief Justice.*

In this wrongful death and survival action against two New Orleans Police Department emergency technicians asserting gross negligence, which purportedly reduced a heart attack victim's chance of survival, a jury in Civil District Court, Orleans Parish, rendered a verdict for plaintiff, and the court of appeal affirmed. Plaintiffs were required to prove gross negligence, not negligence alone, because of the qualified...

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