In re .Charity Hospital at N.O.;—Defendants); applying for supervisory and/or remedial writs; Parish of Orleans, Civil District Court, Div. “I”, No. 96-8923; to the Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit, No. 97CW-0860.

Granted. Pretermitting the issue of whether other provisions of the medical malpractice act apply to plaintiffs’ action, the medical review panel provisions clearly apply as of the time of the filing of the claim. Accordingly, the judgment of the court of appeal is vacated and set aside, and the judgment of the trial court maintaining relator’s exception of prematurity is reinstated.