Joseph v. Hospital Service District No. 2 of the Parish of St. Mary

WEIMER, Justice.

LWe are called upon to determine whether a contract between a hospital and a medical corporation provides a stipulation for a third party (also referred to as a stipulation pour autrui) in the form of benefits for individual doctors affiliated with the medical corporation. This matter is before the court on defendants’ exceptions of no right of action, which contend the doctors are not third party beneficiaries of the contract. The trial court granted defendants’ exceptions and dismissed the plaintiff doctors’ claims with prejudice. The court of appeal reversed and defendants…