Wood v. Humphries

|2In this medical malpractice case, the appellants, Dr. Shawn Humphries and the Louisiana Patient’s Compensation Fund and Louisiana Patient’s Compensation Fund Oversight Board (collectively, the Board), through the defendants, Dr. Hum-phries and Lady of the Sea General Hospital, appeal the trial court’s entry of a judgment notwithstanding the jury’s verdict and its conditional grant of a motion for a new trial in favor of the plaintiffs, Duane and Torrie Wood. For the following reasons, we reverse that judgment and reinstate the jury’s verdict, together with the judgment of April 13, 2011,…