MEDICAL REVIEW PANEL v. KUSHNER

No. 98-CA-765.

722 So.2d 1238 (1998)

MEDICAL REVIEW PANEL for the Claim of Vera M. APKEN v. Dr. Kenneth KUSHNER d/b/a The Heart Clinic of Louisiana, Inc.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 25, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Davy P. Laborde, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Mary F. Gaudin, Metairie, LA, for Defendant-Appellee.

Panel composed of Judges EDWARD A. DUFRESNE, Jr., SOL GOTHARD and THOMAS F. DALEY.


DUFRESNE, Judge.

This is an appeal by Vera Apken from a judgment sustaining an exception of prescription urged by defendants, Dr. Kenneth Kushner d/b/a The Heart Clinic of Louisiana, et al., in this medical malpractice matter. For the following reasons, we affirm that judgment.

The pertinent facts are as follows. On April 10, 1994, Walter Apken, Vera's husband, severely bruised his leg when he fell down in a chartered bus during a sudden stop. A week later...

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