Perkins v. Coastal Emergency Medical Services

hYELVERTON, J.

Scott Lynn Perkins, surviving husband of Angela Sigler Perkins, sued Dr. Stephen Ayers and Coastal Emergency Medical Services, Inc., the service provider for the emergency room at the West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital, for medical malpractice. On February 24,1993, his seventeen-year-old wife was brought to the emergency room of West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital with severe abdominal pain. She reported that she had been vomiting and had diarrhea for four days and that she had seen a doctor in DeQuincy two days earlier who told her to get to a hospital if the symptoms persisted. She…