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malpractice case
Times Staff, Wire Reports
BATON ROUGE - A state judge
has ordered Louisiana State Univer-sity
to pay $500,000 in damages in a
medical malpractice case — the
maximum award — even though he
says damages were greater.
District Judge Frank Foil made the
award in a suit brought by the brother
of a young woman who suffered per-manent
brain damage after she was
treated by a team from the LSU School
of Medicine in Shreveport.
Jane E. Sibley is now hospitalized in
Baton Rouge and has lost various bod-ily
functions, according to testimony
in the case.
LSU Medical Center in Shreveport
and LSU officials in Baton Rouge de-clined
to comment on the case, refer-ring
questions to the attorney in the
suit. Baton Rouge attorney David Rob-inson's
office said he was away for the
weekend. Information as to the com-position
of the "team" mentioned in
the ruling was not available.
Ms. Sibley was moved to the LSU
Medical Center in Shreveport from
Brentwood Hospital because her
treatments were not covered by in-surance
at Brentwood. She came to
Shreveport from Baton Rouge after
leaving college there. At the time she
entered Brentwood she was working
as a file clerk at Willis-Knighton Medi-cal
Center to earn money to return to
school.
In his ruling Thursday, Foil said the
medical team that treated Ms. Sibley
didn't perform to acceptable stan-dards.
Had it not been for various drugs ad-ministered
to her, "this probably
would not have happened," the judge
said.
The court agreed with a psychiatrist
who testified that the medical team
"had a patient going sour on them,"
treated her symptoms and things went
wrong, Foil said.
The suit sought $15 million in dam-ages.
The state law covering malprac-tice
liability for state services limits
any award to a maximum of $500,000.
The judge also ordered the state to pay
nearly $25,000 in court costs.
During the four-day trial, there was
testimony that she was given a variety
of strong anti-psychotic drugs simul-taneously
while at the LSU Medical
Center and on Sept. 15,1980, went into
a deep coma.
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| Title | Med Center Loses Malpractice Case |
| Subject |
Malpractice Sibley, Henry, III Sibley, Jane E. Louisiana State University School of Medicine (Shreveport, La.) |
| Publisher |
Shreveport Times |
| Date | 1983-01-22 |
| Identifier | See reference URL on the navigation bar. |
| Source | Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport Medical Library (http://lib.sh.lsuhsc.edu) |
| Language | en |
| Relation | http://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/cdm4/index_LSUHSCS_NPC.php?CISOROOT=/LSUHSCS_NPC |
| Coverage-Spatial | Shreveport (Caddo, La.) |
| Rights | Physical rights are retained by Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws. |
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