Panel Says Liquidation Of Insurer Gave Notice For Filing Time Limit In Fraud Suit

Mealey's (January 4, 2023, 8:57 AM EST) -- LAKE CHARLES, La. — A Louisiana appellate court affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a surviving spouse’s suit to enforce an Arkansas court’s medical malpractice judgment, finding that the lower court’s decision that the surviving spouse’s fraud claims were prescribed for lack of timely filing “was not manifestly erroneous” because the liquidation of the medical malpractice insurer should have sufficed to begin running of the prescription for filing the fraud claim....