PERKINS v. COASTAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERV.

No. 2000-1036.

779 So.2d 1065 (2001)

Scott Lynn PERKINS v. COASTAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Writ Granted May 4, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack W. Caskey, Lake Charles, LA, Counsel for Scott Lynn Perkins.

Michael Keith Prudhomme, Woodley, Williams, Boudreau Lake Charles, LA, Counsel for Louisiana Patient's Compensation Fund.

Court composed of Judge YELVERTON, Judge, DECUIR and Judge AMY.


YELVERTON, J.

Scott Lynn Perkins, surviving husband of Angela Sigler Perkins, sued Dr. Stephen Ayers and Coastal Emergency Medical Services, Inc., the service provider for the emergency room at the West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital, for medical malpractice. On February 24, 1993, his seventeen-year-old wife was brought to the emergency room of West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital with severe abdominal pain. She reported that she had been vomiting and had diarrhea for four...

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