Geiger v. State ex rel. Department of Health & Hospital

J^FOGG, J.

In this medical malpractice and products liability action, the State of Louisiana, through the Department of Health and Hospitals and Earl K. Long Medical Center (hereinafter collectively referred to as “the State”) seeks writs from a judgment denying its exception of prescription as to the medical malpractice claim. For the following reasons, we deny the writ.

On July 14, 1993, Bennett Geiger and Peggy Pendarvis Geiger, individually and on behalf of their minor daughter, Suzanne Nicole Pendarvis, filed suit for damages. In their petition, the plaintiffs allege that on July 14, 1992…