GRIGGS v. RIVERLAND MEDICAL CENTER

No. 98-256.

722 So.2d 15 (1998)

Peggy Nell GRIGGS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. RIVERLAND MEDICAL CENTER, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 6, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Edward Morton, Esq., Alexandria, Samuel Talmadge Singer, Esq., Winnsboro, for Peggy Nell Griggs.

Michael Keith Prudhomme, Esq., Michele S. Caballero, Lake Charles, for Riverland Medical Center, et al.

Milo Addison Nickel, Jr., Esq., Lake Charles, for Louisiana Patients' Compensation Fund.

Before SAUNDERS, DECUIR and SULLIVAN, JJ.


SULLIVAN, Judge.

This is a medical malpractice case. Defendant, the Louisiana Patients' Compensation Fund (PCF), appeals the trial court judgment rendered in favor of plaintiff, Peggy Nell Griggs, for damages resulting from the death of her husband, John Griggs. The judgment, in the amount of $400,000.00, was rendered in compliance with a $540,000.00 jury verdict made subject to the $100,000.00 La.R.S. 40:1299.42(C)(5) statutory credit in favor of the PCF and the...

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