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Dear Mr. Woolridge:

This office is in receipt of your request for an opinion of the Attorney General in regard to the applicability of R.S.13:5112(C) to suits filed against the Louisiana Patient's Compensation Fund Oversight Board which you represent. R.S.13:5112, Suits against the state or political subdivisions; court costs; interest, provides in Paragraph (C) as follows:

Legal interest on any claim for personal injury or wrongful death shall accrue at six percent per annum from the date service is requested following judicial demand until the judgment thereon is signed by the trial judge in…