DAVIS v. COMMERCIAL UNION INS. CO.

No. 89-4015.

892 F.2d 378 (1990)

Fred DAVIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, Cross-Appellant-Cross-Appellee, v. COMMERCIAL UNION INSURANCE COMPANY, Intervenor-Appellee, Cross-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, v. CONTINENTAL GIN COMPANY, et al., Defendants, Allied Products Corporation, as successor Company to Continental Gin Co., et al., Defendants-Appellants, Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 31, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A.R. Christovich, Jr., J. Warren Gardner, Jr., Christovich & Kearney, New Orleans, La., for Allied Products Corp.

Bonnie L. Zakotnik, New Orleans, La., for Davis.

Ramsey L. Ogg, Davenport, Files & Kelly, Monroe, La., for Commercial Union Ins. Co.

Before DAVIS and SMITH, Circuit Judges, and LITTLE, District Judge.


W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:

In this products liability action, Allied Products, formerly Continental Gin Company (Continental Gin), appeals the district court's judgment casting it for ten percent of Fred Davis' (Davis) damages. Davis appeals the district court's finding of comparative negligence, its damage determination, and its denial of litigation costs. Commercial Union Insurance Company (Commercial Union), the intervening compensation carrier, challenges...

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