Riggs v. National Union Fire

Full title: LORENA RIGGS ON BEHALF OF MINOR SON, BRYANT RIGGS, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT, v…

Court: Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit

Date published: Dec 7, 1994

647 So. 2d 575 (La. Ct. App. 1994)

Opinion

No. 92-593.

December 7, 1994.

APPEAL FROM THE THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF EVANGELINE, STATE OF LOUISIANA, HONORABLE PRESTON N. AUCOIN, DISTRICT JUDGE, PRESIDING.

Jarvis Jerome Claiborne, Opelousas, for Lorena Riggs etc.

George Davis Ernest III, Thomas H. Morrow, Lafayette, for National Union Fire Ins. Co., et al.

Robert Michael Kallam, Lafayette, for LIGA.

Before DOUCET, YELVERTON, THIBODEAUX, SAUNDERS and WOODARD, JJ.

SAUNDERS, Judge.

For the reasons given in the companion case hereto rendered this date under the caption Campbell v. National Union Fire Ins., 92-592 (La.App. 3d Cir. 1994), 647 So.2d 569, the judgment of the trial court is affirmed in part and reversed and remanded in part. Costs to await the outcome of these proceedings.

AFFIRMED IN PART; REVERSED IN PART AND REMANDED.

DOUCET and WOODARD, JJ., dissent with reasons.

DOUCET, Judge, dissenting.

For the reasons given in my dissent in the companion case rendered this date under the caption Campbell v. National Union Fire Ins. Co., 92-592 (La.App. 3d Cir. 1994); 647 So.2d 569, I respectfully dissent. 1.

WOODARD, Judge, dissenting.

For the reasons given in my dissent in the companion case rendered this date under the caption Ricardo Campbell v. National Union Fire Ins. Co., et al., 92-592, 647 So.2d 569 (La.App. 3 Cir. 1994), I respectfully dissent.