Louisiana medical malpractice lawyers Archives

Former Nursing Assistant In Baton Rouge Indicted For Negligent Homicide

January 3, 2026

The Louisiana Attorney General announced on October 6, 2025 that a former nursing assistant at a facility in Baton Rouge has been indicted by a grand jury after an investigation by the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. According to the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office, on June 14, 2024, Diamond [...]

Louisiana Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendants Where Plaintiff Failed To Identify An Expert

April 8, 2025

On November 6, 2018, Linda George presented to Tulane University Hospital in New Orleans for gallbladder removal surgery and repair of a hiatal hernia. During surgery, her esophagus was perforated and required repair. While repairing her esophagus, Ms. George sustained a vocal cord injury. On Novemb[...]

Louisiana Appellate Court Holds Medical Malpractice Claim Against Anesthesiologist Was Filed Too Late

November 10, 2022

Claim Against Anesthesiologist Was Filed Too Late: Louisiana Medical Malpractice Statute Of Limitations – La. R.S. 9:5628(A) provides two periods for filing a malpractice action—either one year from the date of the alleged act, omission or neglect, or one year from the date of discovery of t[...]

Louisiana Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment In Failure To Diagnose Hip Fracture Medical Malpractice Case

December 9, 2021

The State of Louisiana Court of Appeal, Third District (“Louisiana Appellate Court”), in its unpublished opinion dated November 3, 2021, stated that the Louisiana medical malpractice plaintiff’s expert’s affidavit submitted in opposition to the defendant hospital’s moti[...]

Louisiana Appellate Court Holds Fall From Stepstool In Doctor’s Office Not Medical Malpractice Claim

November 13, 2021

In its opinion filed on October 13, 2021, the Court of Appeal Fourth Circuit State of Louisiana (“Louisiana Appellate Court”) held: “Respondent’s fall and subsequent injury were neither treatment-related nor caused by dereliction of professional skill. Expert medical evidence is [...]

Louisiana Doctor Charged With Illegally Dispensing Over 1.2M Opioid Doses

September 22, 2021

On August 27, 2021, a federal grand jury in New Orleans, Louisiana returned an indictment charging a Louisiana physician for his role in distributing over 1,200,000 doses of Schedule II controlled substances, including oxycodone and morphine, outside the scope of professional practice and not for a [...]

Louisiana Appellate Court Finds Fall While Boarding Van Was Not Medical Malpractice

June 27, 2021

In its opinion dated June 9, 2021, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal State of Louisiana (“Louisiana Appellate Court”) stated: “In this personal injury case arising from Barbara Campbell’s purported fall and subsequent injuries while boarding a van to be transported from her home [...]

Louisiana Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment Granted To Pediatric Cardiologist

November 19, 2020

The State of Louisiana Court of Appeal, Third Circuit (“Louisiana Appellate Court”), in its decision dated October 28, 2020, reversed summary judgment granted to the defendant pediatric cardiologist in a Louisiana medical malpractice case, finding that the plaintiff’s medical malpr[...]

Louisiana Supreme Court Holds Negligent Credentialing Claim Falls Under Louisiana’s Medical Malpractice Act

February 16, 2020

The Supreme Court of Louisiana (“Louisiana Supreme Court”) held in its opinion dated January 29, 2020 that the plaintiff’s “allegations against the hospitals for negligent re-credentialing necessarily fall within the definition of “malpractice” under the LMMA because they[...]

Louisiana Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Insurance Company Had No Duty To Obtain Consent To Settle

October 8, 2015

In its decision filed on September 23, 2015, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal State of Louisiana (“Appellate Court”) held that a medical malpractice insurance company was not required to obtain the consent of a physician to settle a medical malpractice case under the clear and unambigu[...]

$330.7M Risperdal Verdict In Louisiana Overturned

February 4, 2014

By its written opinion dated January 28, 2014, the Supreme Court of Louisiana (“Louisiana Supreme Court”) reversed (overturned) a lower court’s verdict that had awarded civil penalties in the amount of $257,679,500.00, attorney fees in the amount of $70,000,000.00, and costs [...]

Louisiana Medical Malpractice Cap Upheld (Again)

April 6, 2012

In a decision issued on March 13, 2012, the Supreme Court of Louisiana upheld as constitutional the Louisiana medical malpractice damage cap as applied to nurse practitioners (La.R.S. 40:1299.42(B) provides, in pertinent part: “(1) The total amount recoverable for all malpractice claims for i[...]

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