Legal Opinion
Hernandez v. Diversified Healthcare-Abbeville, LLC
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided November 4, 2009No. CA 09-546PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GREMILLION, Judge.
_JjThe plaintiffs, the widow and major children of Alvin Hernandez, Sr., appeal the judgment in favor of the defendant, Diversified Healthcare-Abbeville, LLC d/b/a Maison du Monde Living Center, sustaining its exception of prematurity. The trial court found that the plaintiffs’ claims sounded in medical malpractice and, therefore, must first be submitted to the medical review panel. For the following reasons, we affirm.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
The plaintiffs filed suit in April 2009, for the wrongful death of their husband and father in October 2007. Alvin had been a…
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