Coppage v. Gamble

HALL, Judge.

Plaintiff, Reverend Louis M. Coppage, filed suit for damages against Dr. D. E. Gamble, Fairfield Corporation, d/b/a Fair-field Hospital, and their insurer, St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company, alleging that Dr. Gamble performed an unnecessary and unauthorized operation on plaintiff in the defendant hospital on November 23, 1971. Subsequently, on November 5, 1973, plaintiff named as additional defendants, the Louisiana Department of Hospitals (which agency was merged into the Louisiana Health, Social and Rehabilitation Services Administration by Act 253 of 1972) and the…