WOOLEY v. AMCARE HEALTH PLANS OF LOUISIANA

No. 2005 CW 2025.

944 So.2d 668 (2006)

J. Robert WOOLEY, as Acting Commissioner of Insurance for the State of Louisiana v. AMCARE HEALTH PLANS OF LOUISIANA, INC.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

October 25, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph E. Cullens, Jr., Baton Rouge, Guy M. Hohmann, Austin, TX, Kimberly S. Morgan, Edward J. Walters, Jr., Baton Rouge, Sue Buser, Gonzales, Jonathan C. Augustine, Baton Rouge, Counsel for Plaintiff—Appellee J. Robert Wooley, as Acting Commissioner of Insurance and Liquidator of AmCare Health Plans of Louisiana, Inc.

James C. Percy, David M. Kerth, Baton Rouge, Robert B. Bieck, Jr., New Orleans, Counsel for Defendant—Appellant HealthNet, Inc.

Joseph J. McKernan, Baton Rouge, Counsel for Plaintiff—Appellee Jean Johnson as Texas Special Deputy Receiver.

David M. Latham, Keary L. Everitt, New Orleans, Counsel for Plaintiff—Appellee Louisiana Department of Insurance.

Gary P. Koederitz, Baton Rouge, Counsel for Defendant—Appellee BestCare, Inc.

Wendell Clark, Baton Rouge, Counsel for Defendant—Appellee Thomas S. Lucksinger, Michael D. Nadler and Stephen J. Nazarenus.

Claude F. Reynaud, Jr., Baton Rouge, Counsel for Defendant—Appellee Proskauer Rose, L.L.P. and Stuart L. Rosow.

Harry J. Philips, Jr., Baton Rouge, Counsel for Defendant—Appellee William Galtney, Jr. and Michael K. Jhin.

Mary Olive Pierson, V. Thomas Clark, Jr., Baton Rouge, Counsel for Defendant—Appellee PriceWaterhouseCoopers, L.L.C.

Robert J. Burns, Jr., Baton Rouge, David H. Topol, Washington, D.C., Counsel for Defendant—Appellee Greenwich Insurance Company.

George B. Hall, Jr., New Orleans, Merril Hirsh, Washington, D.C., Kelsey Kornick Funes, Baton Rouge, Counsel for Defendant—Appellee Executive Risk Management and Executive Risk Specialty Ins. Co.

David L. Guerry, Baton Rouge, Counsel for Defendant—Appellee Scott Westbrook.

William C. Kaufman, III, Baton Rouge, Counsel for Defendant—Appellee M. Lee Pearce.

Dominique J. Sam, Michael Charles Guy, Baton Rouge, Counsel for Amicus Curiae Charles C. Foti, Jr., Atty. Gen., On Behalf of the Commissioner of Insurance-Liquidator of AmCare Health Plans of Louisiana, Inc.

Before: CIACCIO, LANIER and CLAIBORNE, JJ.


LANIER, J.

Defendant, Health Net, Inc., seeks appellate review of the overruling of its declinatory exception raising the objection of improper venue. For the following reasons, we affirm.

GENERAL PROCEDURAL FACTS

AmCare Health Plans of Texas, Inc. (AmCare-TX), was a health maintenance organization (HMO) licensed by and operating in Texas. Foundation Health Corp. and/or Foundation Health System, now known...

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