A former shareholder and co-owner of Acadian Ear, Nose, Throat and Facial Plastic Surgery Center doesn’t have a right of action for alleged patient funneling or wrongdoing and was properly denied the fair market value of his shares in the practice after he terminated his employment and violated the terms of his non-solicitation agreement, a Louisiana appellate court ruled. Although the physician argued that employees selectively, systematically and disproportionately scheduled patients for another non-shareholder, the patient funneling which occurred was from the non-shareholder to his son and thus only detrimental to the father, the trial court said. The court affirmed ...

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