MONCRIEF v. PANEPINTO

No. 85-CA-759.

489 So.2d 938 (1986)

Margaret MONCRIEF v. Joyce B. Panepinto, wife of/and Philip PANEPINTO, and State Farm Automobile Insurance Company.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

May 12, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger J. Larue, Jr., Metairie, for plaintiff-appellee Margaret Moncrief.

C. Gordon Johnson, Jr., William G. Argeros, Porteous, Hainkel, Johnson & Sarpy, New Orleans, for defendants-appellants Joyce & Philip Panepinto.

Deborah I. Schroeder, H. Martin Hunley, Jr., Gerald J. Talbot, Lemle, Kelleher, Kohlmeyer, Dennery, Hunley, Moss & Frilot, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co.

Before CHEHARDY, KLIEBERT and WICKER, JJ.


KLIEBERT, Judge.

This is a devolutive appeal by Philip and Joyce Panepinto, defendants-appellants, from a judgment granting a motion for a summary judgment, the effect of which was to permit St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company, an underinsured motorist carrier, to proceed against the Panepintos, the tortfeasors, for amounts paid to the injured victim, notwithstanding the release of the tortfeasor by the victim. We affirm.

Margaret Moncrief, a passenger...

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