Thomas Abrams v. Ochsner Clinic Foundation

Opinion

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.

—~COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT

FOR THE COURT