Weeks v. Louisiana Patient's Compensation Fund

1 .PETERS, J.

The Louisiana Patient’s Compensation Fund (PCF) seeks supervisory writs from a judgment of the trial court denying its peremptory exception of prescription. For the following reasons, we deny the writ and remand for further proceedings.

*853DISCUSSION OF THE RECORD

On March 22, 1996, Diana Weeks filed the instant medical malpractice claim arising ont of events that occurred in November of 1993, when she underwent a hysterectomy.1 She initially named Dr. Etienne R. Brown, who performed the hysterectomy, as the only defendant. On March 24, 1997, Ms. Weeks additionally filed a complaint…