Cahanin v. Louisiana Medical Mutual Insurance Co.

|tIn this survival action and wrongful death case, plaintiff Janet Cahanin, wife of the decedent Ronald Cahanin, brought suit against Dr. Ludwig Heintz, a general surgeon, for medical malpractice following the death of her husband hours after he underwent elective laparoscopic surgery to repair an inguinal hernia.1 The jury found that Mrs. Cahanin proved the standard of care, that Dr. Heintz breached the standard of care, but that said breach was not a proximate cause of Mr. Cahanin’s death.2 The trial court entered a judgment reflecting the jury’s verdict, dismissing Mrs. Ca-hanin’s suit…