In Re_ Medical Review Proceedings for Veola Richardson

Opinion

STATE OF LOUISIANA COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT

IN RE: MEDICAL REVIEW NO. 2026 CW 0050 PROCEEDINGS FOR VEOLA RICHARDSON (D)

APRIL 20, 2026

In Re: St. Tammany Parish Service District No. 1 d/b/a St. Tammany Parish Hospital, Jessica F. Duncan, M.D., Jim Jones, M.D., Bianca Garrett, and Keith J. LaCour, M.D., applying for supervisory writs, 22nd Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Tammany, No. 2021-12353.

BEFORE: LANIER, WOLFE, AND HESTER, JJ.

WRIT NOT CONSIDERED. This writ application is untimely. Relators’ notice of intent was filed on December 29, 2025, more than thirty days after the trial court signed its September 17, 2025 judgment denying the Peremptory Exceptions of Prescription filed by defendants, St. Tammany Parish Service District No. 1 D/B/A St. Tammany Parish Hospital, Jessica F. Duncan, M.D., Jim Jones, M.D., Keith J. LaCour, M.D., and Bianca Garrett. Although defendants filed a motion for new trial from the September 17, 2025 judgment, that ruling was interlocutory, and a motion for new trial pertains only to final judgments and was procedurally improper. Most significantly, the filing of a motion for new trial seeking reconsideration of an interlocutory ruling cannot interrupt the thirty-day period for filing an application for supervisory writs established by Rule 4-3 of the Uniform Rules of Louisiana Courts of Appeal. See Carter v. Rhea, 2001-0234 (La. App. 4th Cir. 4/25/01), 785 So.2d 1022, 1025.

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