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ACOSTA v. PENDLETON MEMORIAL METHODIST HOSP.

No. 88-CA-2003.

545 So.2d 1053 (1989)

Tammy ACOSTA v. PENDLETON MEMORIAL METHODIST HOSPITAL.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 19, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. Alfred Adams, Carruth, Cooper and Adams, A Law Corporation, Baton Rouge, for Pendleton Memorial Methodist Hosp. Counsel for Douglas D. Green Com'r of Insurance for the State of La., the Office of the Atty. Gen., for the State of Louisiana and the Louisiana Patient's Compensation Fund.

Lemle, Kelleher, Kohlmeyer, Dennery, Hunley, Moss & Frilot, C. William Bradley, Jr., New Orleans, Liability Appeal Counsel for defendant/appellant.

Kendall R. Moses, Kenner, Jennifer N. Willis, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before CIACCIO, WARD and PLOTKIN, JJ.

PLOTKIN, Judge.

The issues presented in this appeal relate to the post-verdict procedures implemented by the trial judge. They are whether the trial judge properly polled the jury and thereafter applied the correct standard for granting a judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV) in reallocating fault and increasing the jury verdict from $134,500 to $332,000.

Appellants/defendants, Pendleton Memorial Methodist Hospital (Pendleton) and intervenors, the Office...

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