Legal Opinion
Morris v. Rainwater
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided January 11, 2017No. 51,018-CAPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLolley, J.
hln this medical malpractice case, plaintiffs, Joshua Morris and Jeremy Watson, appeal a judgment from the Second Judicial District Court, Parish of Jackson, State of Louisiana, wherein a jury found in favor of defendant, Dr. Dirk Rainwater, M.D. For the following reasons we affirm the judgment of the trial court.
FACTS
On June 13, 2011, at approximately 1:15 p.m., Charlotte Leach, then a 50-year-old white female, presented in the Jackson Parish Hospital (“JPH”) emergency room in Jonesboro, Louisiana, with complaints of a headache and abdominal pain which had begun three days prior. Leach was…
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