Legal Opinion
Smith v. Lincoln General Hosp.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided October 2, 1992No. 92-CC-1499PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
605 So.2d 1347 (1992)
Bobby Neal SMITH
v.
LINCOLN GENERAL HOSPITAL et al.
No. 92-CC-1499.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
October 2, 1992.
2Per curiam
The court of appeal erred when it reversed the trial court's ruling ordering production of studies done by the defendant regarding the percentage of nosocomial infections per admission. In reversing the trial court's ruling, the court of appeal determined that La.R.S. 13:3715.3(A) and 44:7(D) make the information the plaintiff seeks confidential and thus barred from discovery. Plaintiff brought suit to recover, inter alia, for injuries he sustained as the result of a…
3Cases cited1 opinion
- Smith v. Louisiana Health & Human Resources AdministrationSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1985
4Cited by23 opinions
- Kimberly Powell v. Community Health Systems, Inc.Tennessee Supreme Court · 2010
- Hamdan v. Indiana University Health North Hospital, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2018
- Gauthreaux v. FrankSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1995
- George v. Christus Health Southwestern LouisianaLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2016
- In re Philip Morris, Inc.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1998
18 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.