Couvillion v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance

PETERS, Judge ad hoc.

This is a medical malpractice suit. Defendant 'filed a peremptory exception of prescription which was sustained and plaintiff appealed.

Plaintiff, Mrs. Couvillion, consulted Dr. Joseph Villard, defendant’s insured, on March 15, 1974 concerning a drainage problem in her left ear. Mrs. Couvillion had undergone a mastoidectomy of the left ear in 1953 and had experienced drainage in the ear since that operation. Dr. Vil-lard scheduled plaintiff for a surgical revision of the left mastoidectomy on March 19, 1974. During the course of surgery he severed a left facial nerve,…