FLETCHER v. SIMMONS

No. 37,758-CA.

859 So.2d 292 (2003)

Kim Travis FLETCHER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dawn R. SIMMONS, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

October 29, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cotton, Bolton, Hoychick & Doughty, by John B. Hoychick, Ruston, for Louisiana Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Co.

Tracy L. Oakley, Ruston, for Dawn R. Simmons and Safeway Insurance Company of Louisiana.

Chester A. Bradley, III and Associates, by Chester A. Bradley, III, Monroe, for Kim Travis Fletcher.

Before STEWART, GASKINS and MOORE, JJ.


GASKINS, J.

Louisiana Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company ("Farm Bureau") appeals from a judgment in favor of plaintiff Kim Fletcher. The issue presented in this auto accident case is whether the trial court's general damage award of $18,000.00 was excessive. For the following reasons, we amend and affirm.

FACTS

On December 26, 1998, Kim Fletcher, age 27, was riding as a passenger in her mother's 1991 Ford Ranger pickup truck on Louisiana Highway...

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