FAIR GROUNDS CORP. v. ADT SEC. SYSTEMS

No. 97-CA-2375.

719 So.2d 1110 (1998)

FAIR GROUNDS CORPORATION v. ADT SECURITY SYSTEMS, Mid-South, Inc.; ADT Security Systems, Inc.; et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied November 16, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wendall H. Gauthier, Julie B. Beiser, Gauthier, Downing, Labarre, Beiser & Dean, Metairie, and T. Peter Breslin, Jr., P.J. Stakelum, III, Chehardy, Sherman, Ellis, Breslin & Murray, Metairie, for Plaintiff-Appellant Fair Grounds Corporation.

C.G. Norwood, Jr., Margaret Diamond, McGlinchey Stafford, John Gregory Odom, Stuart E. Des Roches, New Orleans, and Robert E. Couhig, Jr., Leslie A. Lanusse, William J. Kelly, III, Adams & Reese, New Orleans, for Defendants-Appellants ADT Security Systems, Inc. and ADT Security Mid-South, Inc.

C. Edgar Cloutier, Christovich & Kearney, New Orleans, for Defendant-Appellant Reliance National Indemnity Company.

Donald A. Hoffman, Robert I. Siegel, William M. Blackston, Hoffman, Siegel, Seydel, Bienvenu & Centola, New Orleans, and Todd Denenberg Grotefeld & Denenberg, Southfield, MI, for Defendant-Appellee Allianz Underwriters Insurance Co.

Roy C. Cheatwood, Brent B. Barriere, Nancy Scott Degan, Thomas M. Beh, Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, for Intervenors-Appellants Insurance Company of the West, Travelers Indemnity Company, and Royal Indemnity Company.

Charles M. Ponder, III, Hulse & Wanek, New Orleans, for Defendants-Appellees A. Blum Construction Company, Continental Casualty Co., and National Fire Ins., Co. of Hartford.

Before KLEES, LOBRANO and MURRAY, JJ.


KLEES, Judge.

This case presents claims for property damage and alleged related losses arising from a fire that destroyed several buildings at the race track owned by the Fair Grounds Corporation on the evening of December 17, 1993. After an investigation into the cause of the fire, the Fair Grounds brought suit against the alarm company which had previously installed a fire protection system at the racing facility. The Fair Grounds' subrogated property insurers also...

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