Thomas Abrams v. Ochsner Clinic Foundation
Thomas Abrams v. Ochsner Clinic Foundation, No. 2025 CW 0906 (La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. Dec. 11, 2025).
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- In Re Howard 541 So. 2d 195
Opinion text
STATE OF LOUISIANA
COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT
THOMAS ABRAMS, ET AL. NO. 2025 CW 0906
VERSUS
OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION, DECEMBER 11, 2025
ET AL.
In Re: Thomas Abrams, applying for supervisory writs, 19th
Judicial District Court, Parish of East Baton Rouge, No.
748748 c/w 751419 c/w 752412.
BEFORE : THERIOT, PENZATO, AND BALFOUR, JJ.
WRIT GRANTED WITH ORDER. The district court’s July 3, 2025
judgment which granted the exceptions of prescription filed by
defendants, Majid Jawad, J.D. (incorrectly named in plaintiff’s
Petition for Damages as “Jawad Majid, M.D.”), James Ratliff, M.D.,
Naseeruddin Kahn, M.D., and ProAssurance Specialty Insurance Co.
as their insurer, and by Ashlyn K. Bergeron, M.D., Leo D.
Verlander, Jr., M.D., Cara Cantelli Quin, M.D., and ProAssurance
Specialty Insurance Co. as their insurer, and dismissed
plaintiff’s claims against those defendants, is an appealable
judgment. Thus, the writ application is ocranted for the limited
purpose of remanding this matter to the district court with
instructions to grant an appeal to plaintiff, Thomas Abrams,
pursuant to his notice of intent to seek supervisory writs. See
In Re Howard, 541 So.2d 195 (La. 1989) (per curiam). Additionally,
a copy of this court’s order is to be included in the appellate
record.