Louisiana federal judge refuses to toss hospital conspiracy lawsuit

The lawsuit involving a hospital owner a healthcare law firm and accusations of deception and conspiracy was criticized, but not tossed, by a federal judge in Louisiana on April 15, according to a Law 360 report.

The plaintiff claims he hired two attorneys from healthcare law firm Sullivan Stolier & Knight to help him buy a closing medical facility to which he could relocate his long-term acute-care facility.

The plaintiff further alleges the lawyers conspired against him with a hospital management services company to prevent him from buying the property, defrauded him into believing the hospital was nearly insolvent and convinced him to sign away his rights to the hospital to another company owned by one of the attorneys and his partner.

Highlighted below are three things to know about the case.

1. The complaint requests the court undo the transaction and grant the plaintiff full ownership of both the hospital he originally owned and the new one he was trying to purchase for his relocation. The complaint also asks the court to award damages for the attorneys' alleged wrongs, including legal malpractice.

2. U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo dismissed the legal malpractice claims against the attorney's partner, but did not toss similar claims made by the plaintiff against the two attorneys he hired.

3. The judge also did not dismiss the plaintiff's claims for breach of fiduciary duty against one of the attorneys and the firm and the plaintiff's breach of contract claims.

 

 

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