Legal Opinion
In re Medical Review Panel of Harris
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided September 25, 1998No. 97 CA 1970PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCarter, J.
This is an appeal by a medical malpractice claimant from a trial court judgment sustaining the health care providers’ peremptory exception pleading the objection of liberative prescription and dismissing a proceeding before the Medical Review Panel.
FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
On March 11, 1992, Dr. Guy T. Haven, a pathologist, examined an anal polyp which had been surgically removed from Kelly Miller Harris and rendered a diagnosis of “villo-glandular polyp with severe epithelial dyspla-sia.” Dr. Haven further commented in his report, “The lesion approaches carcinoma in-situ in some foci.…
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