W.P. v. Universal Health Services Foundation

WALTER J. ROTHSCHILD, Judge.

| gPlaintiffs, W.P. and E.P., individually and on behalf of their minor child, H.P., filed the instant petition for damages against River Oaks Child and Adolescent Hospital alleging that River Oaks was negligent in failing to prevent a sexual assault to H.P. which occurred while H.P. was a patient at the hospital. River Oaks responded with a dilatory exception of prematurity on the basis that the claims were governed by the Louisiana Medical Malpractice Act and must be reviewed by a medical review panel prior to commencement of litigation. Plaintiffs opposed this…