Hamblen v. Hospital Service District No. 1

J^LeBLANC, J.

This is an appeal by the plaintiff, Janet Hamblen, individually and as tutrix of her quadriplegic minor son, David Wayne Fag-gard, from a judgment of dismissal rendered by the trial court in favor of the defendants, Hospital Service District No. 1, the owner and operator of Terrebonne General Medical Center and Kevin J. Por-tier, hereinafter referred to as TGMC, on the basis of plaintiffs counsel repeated failure to ignore a motion to compel discovery documents.

Procedural Background

On January 15, 1998, TGMC filed a petition to initiate discovery subsequent to plaintiffs filing a…