White v. Board of Administrators of Tulane Educational Fund

JiSCHOTT, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs, Tulane University Medical Center, Dr. John Willis a psychiatrist and neurologist, and Dr. Emanuel Shapira, a geneticist, seek a declaratory judgment requiring the Chairman of a Medical Review Panel before whom a medical malpractice action is pending against them to require the claimant in the malpractice action to appoint to the panel a physician whose specialty is the same as one of the plaintiff physicians. The trial court dismissed their petition and they have appealed. The issue is whether LSA-R.S. 40:1299.47, subd. C(3)(f)(v) requires the appointment of…