Allstate Ins. Co. v. Dan Gabus

STATE OF LOUISIANA

COURT OF APPEAL, THIRD CIRCUIT 04-154 consolidated with

04-152 &04-153

ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY

VERSUS

DAN GABUS D/B/A MARTIAL ARTS ACADEMY AND/OR BAYOU CRANE PRODUCTIONS AND ABC INSURANCE COMPANY

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APPEAL FROM THE

FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF LAFAYETTE, NUMBER 20025076 HONORABLE BYRON HEBERT, DISTRICT JUDGE **********

BILLIE COLOMBARO WOODARD

JUDGE **********

Court composed of Ulysses Gene Thibodeaux, Chief Judge, Billie Colombaro Woodard, and Marc T. Amy, Judges.

REVERSED AND REMANDED.

Gregory J. McDonald Henry Provosty Bienvenu, Foster, Ryan & Edgar D. Gankendorff O’Bannon Christophe B. Szapary 1010 Common Street, Suite 2200 Provosty, Salder, deLaunay, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112 Fiorenza & Sobel (504) 310-1544 650 Poydras Street, Suite 2700 COUNSEL FOR New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT: (504) 410-2795 Assurance Company of COUNSEL FOR America DEFENDANTS/APPELLEES: Dan Gabus d/b/a Martial Arts Academy and Bayou Crane Productions and Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s London Kraig Thomas Strenge Robert L. Ellender Post office Drawer 52292 Voorhies & Labbe Lafayette, Louisiana 70502-2292 Post Office Box 3527 (337) 261-9722 Lafayette, Louisiana 70502-3527 COUNSEL FOR (337) 232-9700 PLAINTIFF/APPELLEE: COUNSEL FOR Styles Fashion Outlets, Inc. DEFENDANT/APPELLE: Lafayette Insurance Co. Domengeaux & Foreman d/b/a La Promenade Mall, et al. William M. Blackston

Hoffman, Siegel, Seydel, et al.

2100 Poydras Center

New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 (504) 523-1385

COUNSEL FOR

PLAINTIFF/APPELLE:

Allstate Insurance Co.

WOODARD, Judge.

For the reasons assigned this day in Northern Ins. Co. of New York v. Dan Gabus, et al., 04-153 (La.App. 3 Cir. __/__/04), ___So.2d ___, we reverse the trial court’s dismissal of Assurance Company of America on an exception of prescription. We remand the matter for further proceedings and cast the costs of this appeal on Defendant/Appellee, Gabus and its insurers.

REVERSED AND REMANDED.