Turner v. Willis Knighton Medical Center

| ,This case concerns the procedures for requesting and maintaining the medical review panel under the Medical Malpractice Act (“MMA”), and their effect upon the running of prescription against the plaintiffs claim. After the plaintiffs filing of her claim requesting a medical review panel, no attorney chairman for the panel was appointed during the one year provided for such appointment. The plaintiff thereafter filed this suit which was met with exceptions of prescription by the defendants. The trial court ruled that plaintiffs claim had prescribed, and this appeal followed. Finding that…