LAKE CHARLES MEDICAL & SURGICAL v. SMITH

No. 10-1383.

69 So.3d 1169 (2011)

LAKE CHARLES MEDICAL & SURGICAL CLINIC, LLP v. Shondra L. SMITH, M.D., et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

June 22, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard Knapp, Jr. , Attorney at Law, Lake Charles, LA, for Plaintiff/Appellant, Lake Charles Medical & Surgical Clinic, LLP.

Russell T. Tritico, Sr. , Attorney at Law, Lake Charles, LA, for Defendant/Appellee, Shondra L. Smith, M.D.

W. Todd Fontenot , Fontenot & Fontenot Law Firm, Lake Charles, LA, for Defendant/Appellee, Cindi Reed.

Court composed of ULYSSES GENE THIBODEAUX, Chief Judge, JIMMIE C. PETERS, J. DAVID PAINTER, JAMES T. GENOVESE, and PHYLLIS M. KEATY, Judges.


KEATY, Judge.

This litigation arises out of an employment contract and partnership agreement between a physician and a medical clinic. The defendants, a partner-physician and the clinic's director of research, purposefully changed the terms of a research contract in advance of their leaving the clinic, resulting in the physician directly receiving a check for over $97,000 for research performed while she was employed by the clinic. The clinic filed suit against the...

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