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RUIZ v. ONIATE

Nos. 96-CA-2211 to 96-CA-2214.

697 So.2d 1373 (1997)

Ronald S. RUIZ v. Frank J. ONIATE, Jr. Frank J. ONIATE, Jr. v. Lanzin MAGEE and Boh Bros. Construction Company, Inc. Frank J. ONIATE, Jr. v. ST. JUDE MEDICAL CENTER, INC. Frank J. ONIATE, Jr. v. MAHORNER CLINIC, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 29, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard P. Ieyoub, Attorney General, Miles G. Trapolin, Special Assistant Attorney General, Trapolin Law Firm, New Orleans, for Appellants State of La. and Charity Hospital of Louisiana.

Robert A. Caplan, Lewis & Caplan, New Orleans, and Evan F. Trestman, a Professional Law Corporation, New Orleans, and Vincent J. Glorioso, Jr., New Orleans, for Appellee Frank J. Oniate, Jr.

Before BYRNES, WALTZER and MURRAY, JJ.

BYRNES, Judge.

Plaintiff, Frank J. Oniate, Jr., filed his original suit on August 4, 1983 against Lanzio Magee and his employer, Boh Brothers, to recover for neck injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident. In December 1987, Oniate began to exhibit symptoms of osteomyelitis (septic hip) which resulted from a flair-up of a latent surgical staph infection apparently contracted in November of 1987. By the time it was diagnosed, Oniate's hip was destroyed. Oniate...

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