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· 4/3/1959

Brian v. Employers Casualty Co.

Citations

  • 111 So. 2d 161
  • 1959 La. App. LEXIS 889

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • finding jury charge on medical judgment was proper because defendant-physician exercised a medical judgment to conduct a lab test on the plaintiff rather than hospitalize him and exercised a medical judgment in his method of contacting the plaintiff about the test results
  • upholding jury instruction that stated, “a physician is not liable for an error of judgment. The medical judgment itself of a doctor must be based on the same degree of skill, knowledge and care as that normally exercised in the medical profession”

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Judges: Ayres, Gladney, Hardy, Lin

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