Banks v. Children's Hospital

MADELEINE M. LANDRIEU, Judge.

|TThe plaintiffs, Julia Banks and Bay-nard Taylor, appeal the trial court’s judgment dismissing their medical malpractice case against the defendant, Children’s Hospital, following a full trial on the merits. We find that the trial court erred by entering judgment rather than sending the jury back for further deliberations or ordering a new trial, as required by Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure Article 1813, after the jury returned inconsistent answers on the special verdict form. Reviewing the record de novo, however, we reach the same result as the trial court.…