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SHAKER v. HATCHER

No. 96 CA 1283.

692 So.2d 26 (1997)

Hussain SHAKER v. James R. HATCHER, M.D., and Redfield E. Bryan, M.D., James R. Hatcher, M.D., Maurice M. Vick, M.D., A Professional Medical Corporation.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

March 27, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Upton, Baton Rouge, and Frederick E. Davis, Jr., Dayton, OH, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Bradley C. Myers, Baton Rouge, for Defendant-Appellant, La. Patients' Compensation Fund.

Before SHORTESS, PARRO and KUHN, JJ.

SHORTESS, Judge.

This appeal requires us to decide how much legal interest the present defendant, the Patients' Compensation Fund (PCF), should pay on a settling health-care provider's portion of a medical malpractice judgment.

Hussain Shaker (plaintiff) sued Dr. James R. Hatcher, his medical corporation, and its insurer, on December 27, 1990, for medical malpractice. On February 24, 1993, the trial court approved a settlement between plaintiff and Hatcher...

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