Simon v. Haile

CARTER, Judge.

This is an appeal from the trial court’s judgment sustaining a peremptory exception raising the objection of prescription.

FACTS

This is a suit arising under the Louisiana Medical Malpractice Act, LSA-R.S. 40:1299.41 et seq., in which appellants, William and Gwendolyn Simon, individually and on behalf of their minor child, Ebony Denise Simon, allege that, as a result of the negligence of Dr. William Haile and Woman’s Hospital Foundation (Woman’s Hospital), their child was born with cerebral palsy. Appellants commenced this action against Dr. Haile and his insurer, Louisiana Mutual…