BOURQUE v. LOUISIANA HEALTH SYSTEMS CORP.

No. 03-56.

845 So.2d 584 (2003)

Bertha B. Bourque and Nelson J. BOURQUE v. LOUISIANA HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 4, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keith Dunn Jones, Stanley R. Aaron, Jones, Aaron & Smith, Baton Rouge, LA, for Plaintiff/Appellant, Bertha B. Bourque and Nelson J. Bourque.

Nicholas Gachassin Jr., Julie Savoy, Gachassin Law Firm, Lafayette, LA, for Defendant/Appellee, Louisiana Health Systems Corporation.

Peter Elliot Sperling, Nairda Teresa Colón, Gary L. Hanes, Kathryn Montez Caraway, Frilot, Partridge, Kohnke & Clements, L.C., New Orleans, LA, for Defendant/Appellee, Blood Systems, Inc. d/b/a United Blood Services.

Court composed of ULYSSES GENE THIBODEAUX, OSWALD A. DECUIR, and GLENN B. GREMILLION, Judges.


THIBODEAUX, Judge.

In this strict products liability action, the plaintiffs, Bertha and Nelson Bourque, appeal the trial court's judgment granting defendants', Louisiana Health Systems Corporation d/b/a Lafayette General Hospital ("Lafayette General") and Blood Systems, Inc. d/b/a United Blood Services ("Blood Systems"), peremptory exceptions of prescription. The trial court found that Mrs. Bourque knew shortly after her motorcycle accident in 1975 that she had contracted...

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