LOUPE v. AVONDALE SHIPYARDS

No. 84-CA-683.

470 So.2d 336 (1985)

Lloyd L. LOUPE v. AVONDALE SHIPYARDS, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

May 13, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel J. Caruso and Rebecca L. Stafford, Simon, Peragine, Smith & Redferan, New Orleans, for American Optical Corp. et al., defendant-appellee.

Donald M. Pierce, Rodney P. Vincent & Gary R. West, New Orleans, for Lloyd L. Loupe, plaintiff-appellant.

Thomas L. Gaudry, Jr., Gretna, for The Celotex Corp., D.C. Hoctel, W.H. Killeen and H.J. Boudreaux, defendants-appellees.

Michael T. Cali, New Orleans, for Zurich Ins. Co., defendant-appellee.

Scott E. Silbert, Metairie, for William Alexander, Peter Territo a/k/a Peter Theriot, Raymond Young & The Travelers Ins., defendants-appellees.

Thomas E. Loehn & Cynthia Conroy, Boggs, Loehn & Rodrigue, New Orleans, for Employers Commercial Union Ins. Co., defendants-appellees.

Joseph J. Lowenthal, Jr., Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, New Orleans, for Avondale Shipyards, defendant-appellee.

Before BOUTALL, BOWES and DUFRESNE, JJ.


BOUTALL, Judge.

This appeal arises from a tort suit by a worker who contracted pneumoconiosis. From a judgment maintaining an exception of prescription and dismissing his suit against one of the defendants, the worker has taken this appeal.

Lloyd L. Loupe was employed by Celotex Corporation from 1947 to 1962 and Avondale Shipyards from 1965 to 1976, during which time he allegedly was exposed to toxic fibers and silica dust. He underwent a diagnostic study...

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