FONTANA v. LA. SHERIFFS' AUTO. RISK

No. 96 CA 2752.

697 So.2d 1037 (1997)

Steven A. FONTANA v. LOUISIANA SHERIFFS' AUTOMOBILE RISK PROGRAM, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

June 20, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Danny J. Lirette, Houma, for Plaintiff-Appellant Steven A. Fontana.

James L. Selman, II, New Orleans, and Michele W. Crosby, Baton Rouge, for Alliance General Insurance Co.

Before LOTTINGER, C.J., and FOIL and FOGG, JJ.


LOTTINGER, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from the trial court's judgment denying penalties and attorney's fees under La. R.S. 22:658.

BACKGROUND

Steven Fontana, a sergeant with the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Department, was involved in an automobile accident while on patrol on January 3, 1993. Micheal Bourgeois, who admitted to being intoxicated at the time of the accident, rear-ended Fontana upon exiting the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway Tunnel in...

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