Two Villa Feliciana Medical Complex employees, accused of hitting a patient, were arrested on November 13, 2009, and booked into the East Feliciana Parish Jail. Hitting a patient is considered an intentional tort or battery by Louisiana law, and any claim for injuries and damages suffered by the struck patient…
Crisis, what Crisis? Medical malpractice lawsuits account for less than 1% of all civil suits and have been declining for nearly 10 years. In 2008, fewer medical malpractice claims were filed by patients in Louisiana than in any year since 1996. The insurance market is so strong in Louisiana that…
In a Louisiana medical malpractice trial, defense counsel had an ex parte meeting with a prior treating physician who was not a party to the case to go over the plaintiff’s medical records, without a medical authorization allowing verbal communication with the health care provider and without advance notice to…
The Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal held that where the general employer’s business is to loan out his or her employees and equipment to others, the general employer’s business is being furthered even if he does not control the details of the work. The special employer benefits because it…
After unanimously winning the medical review panel, Baton Rouge, Louisiana medical malpractice lawyer, Scott Andrews, settles a failure to diagnose compartment syndrome case against an emergeny room doctor for $450,000. Plaintiff, a fifty-one year old nurse, presented to the Lane Memorial emergency room in Zachary, Louisiana, on the evening of…