LABORDE v. PECOT

Nos. CW 2005-285, CW 2005-304, CW 2005-330, CW 2005-365, CW 2005-369, CW 2005-374, CW 2005-376, CW 2005-401, CW 2005-406, CW 2005-407, CW 2005-1011, CW 2005-1044, CW 2005-1057.

942 So.2d 699 (2006)

Derry LABORDE, et al. v. Kirby M. PECOT, et al. Kenyawn Augustine, et al. v. New Horizon Kids Quest, IV, Inc., et al. Kenyawn Augustine, et al. v. Kirby M. Pecot, et al. Louis and Jennifer Blalock, et al. v. New Horizon Kids Quest, IV, Inc., et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

November 2, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond L. Brown, Jr., Lottie L. Bash, Gold, Weems, Bruser, Sues & Rundell, APLC, Alexandria, LA, for Gremillion Corrugated, LLC.

Steven Claude Judice, Chad Sullivan, Keogh, Cox & Wilson, Ltd., Baton Rouge, LA, for Larry Stockwell Heating & Air-Conditioning, Federated Mutual Insurance Company.

David J. Schexnaydre, Wade Dillard Rankin, Edward J. Lassus, Jr., Mary E. Lord, Pajares & Schexnaydre, LLC, Covington, LA, for Fulcrum Insurance Company.

Ralph R. Alexis, III, Porteous, Hainkel & Johnson, LLP, Harry E. Forst, New Orleans, LA, Christopher T. Grace, III, Metairie, LA, for Coastal Air Balance, Inc.

William B. Baggett, Wells T. Watson, Baggett, McCall, Burgess, Watson & Gaughan, Lake Charles, LA, Eugene A. Ledet, Jr., Rivers, Beck, Dalrymple & Ledet, Alexandria, LA, Triston Kane Knoll, Jerold Edward Knoll Jr. Esq., The Knoll Law Firm, Marksville, LA, for Louis Blalock, et al., Derry Laborde, et al., Kenyawn Augustine, et al.

Terrence L. Brennan, Keith J. Bergeron, Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, LLP, New Orleans, LA, for Atrium Vinyl Products.

Richard D. Chappuis, Jr., Kristen Broussard Menard, Hoai T. Hoang, Voorhies & Labbé, Lafayette, LA, Kirby M. Pecot, d/b/a Pecot & Co. Architects Design Professional Ins. Co.

Simone Chachere Dupre, Voorhies & Labbé, Lafayette, LA, for Kirby M. Pecot.

Dominic Joseph Gianna, Michael Otis Waguespack, Alan Dean Weinberger, Middleberg, Riddle, & Gianna, New Orleans, LA, Lawrence J. Duplass, Claire A. Breaux, Andrew D. Weinstock, Duplass, Zwain, Bourgeois & Morton, APLC, Metairie, LA, Whitney A. Klein, Christopher Carton, McCarter & English, Newark, NJ, for The Trane Company.

Gary M. Zwain, Kevin R. Derham, Duplass, Zwain, Bourgeois & Morton, APLC, Metairie, LA, for Jefferson Sprinkler Company, Inc.

Jerry J. Falgoust, Dauzat, Falgoust, Caviness and Bienvenu, Opelousas, LA, for D.W. Fire Stopping, Inc.

Ronald J. Fiorenza, Provosty, Sadler, deLaunay, Fiorenza & Sobel, APC, Alexandria, LA, for Alvarez Donnoway-Passons, Inc.

John P. Doggett, Zebulon M. Winstead, Provosty, Sadler, deLaunay, Fiorenza & Sobel, APC, Alexandria, LA, for Dixie Roofing and Sheet Metal Company, Inc., Century Insurance Group, Colony Insurance Company.

R. Joshua Koch, Jr., Spyridon, Koch, Palermo & Dornan, LLC, Metairie, LA, for Tunica-Biloxi Indians, Paragon Casino Resort.

Rachelle Deckert Dick, Forrester, Jordan & Dick, LLC, Baton Rouge, LA, for Tunica-Biloxi Indians of Louisiana, Paragon Casino Resort.

Milton O'Neal Walsh, Walsh & Bailey, Baton Rouge, LA, for Security Insurance Company of Hartford.

William L. Melancon, Dawn M. Fuqua, Joseph T. Puhekker, Melancon & Associates, LLC, Lafayette, LA, for Security Insurance Co. of Hartford, M & E Consulting, Inc.

Leigh Haynie, Joseph Joy & Associates, Lafayette, LA, for M & E Consulting, Inc., Security Insurance Company of Hartford.

Gary Paul Kraus, Richard Joseph Petre, Jr., Onebane Law Firm, Lafayette, LA, for Security Insurance Company of Hartford, Gunn Electric Company, Inc.

Michael P. Maraist, Onebane Law Firm, Lafayette, LA, for Gunn Electric Company, Inc.

Thomas Edward Loehn, Charles K. Chauvin, Boggs, Loehn & Rodrigue, New Orleans, LA, for Design Tex Group.

DeWitt T. Methvin, Jr., Alexandria, LA, for State Farm Insurance Company.

Larry A. Stewart, Stafford, Stewart & Potter, Alexandria, LA, for Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., F.L. Crane & Sons, Inc.

Charmagne A. Padua, Jay M. Lonero, Larzelere Picou Wells Simpson Lonero, LLC, Metairie, LA, for TIG Insurance Company.

Rodney M. Rabalais, Rabalais & Roy, Marksville, LA, for Tunica Biloxi Construction Co.

Patrick J. Hanna, Rabalais, Hanna & Hebert, Lafayette, LA, for Tunica Biloxi Construction Co.

Charles A. Schutte, Jr., Guglielmo, Marks, Schutte, Terhoeve & Love, Baton Rouge, LA, for Signlite, Inc.

Robert A. Vosbein, Adams and Reese, LLP, New Orleans, LA, for Continental Casualty Company.

John B. Davis, Adams and Reese, LLP, Baton Rouge, LA, for Continental Casualty Company.

David A. Hurlburt, George D. Ernest, III, Hurlburt, Privat & Monrose, APLC, Lafayette, LA, for Berg, Inc.

Lourdes Estevez Martinez, Lugenbuhl, Wheaton, Peck, Rankin & Hubbard, ALC, New Orleans, LA, for Travelers Indemnity Company.

James H. Gibson, Allen & Gooch, Lafayette, LA, for New Horizon Kids Quest, Inc.

Matthew J. Ungarino, Ungarino & Eckert, LLC, Ray F. Lucas, III, Lafayette, LA, for Specialty Surplus Insurance Company.

David I. Bordelon, Ungarino & Eckert, LLC, Baton Rouge, LA, for Specialty Surplus Insurance Company.

David K. Nelson, George T. Hawthorne, Jeffrey N. Boudreaux, Kean, Miller, Hawthorne, D'Armond, McCowan & Jarman, LLP, Baton Rouge, LA, for Custom Metal and Siding, Dwayne Whatley.

Roy M. Mosley, CNA Environmental & Mass Tort, San Francisco, CA, for CNA Insurance Company.

Richard G. Duplantier, Jr., Stephen J. Moore, Michael D. Lonegrass, Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith, New Orleans, LA, for CNA Insurance Company, McElroy Metal, Inc.

D. Patrick Daniel, Jr., Mark R. Pharr, III, Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith, Lafayette, LA, for McElroy Metal, Inc.

David P. Salley, Glen E. Mercer, Salley, Hite, Rivera & Mercer, New Orleans, LA, for Zurich American Insurance Company.

Christopher S. Hardy, Penny & Hardy, APLC, Lafayette, LA, for Republic Vanguard Insurance Company.

Keith C. Armstrong, Scott C. Barney, Chaffe McCall, LLP, Baton Rouge, LA, for Senergy, Inc.

Bonita K. Preuett-Armour, Armour Law Firm, LLC, Alexandria, LA, for G.W. Moreau Metal Buildings, Glen Moreau, State Farm Insurance Company.

Richard T. Musgrave, Musgrave, McLachlan & Penn, LLC, New Orleans, LA, for Western World Insurance Company, JES, Inc.

S. Aaron Siebeneicher, Johnson & Siebeneicher, Alexandria, LA, for Western World Insurance Company, JES, Inc.

Michael D. Rubenstein, Kenneth T. Wallace, Liskow & Lewis, APLC, New Orleans, LA, for Sellers & Josephson, Inc.

John T. Walsh, Lathrop & Gage, L.C., St. Louis, MO, for Sellers & Josephson, Inc.

Before the Court En Banc: ULYSSES GENE THIBODEAUX, Chief Judge, SYLVIA R. COOKS, JOHN D. SAUNDERS, OSWALD A. DECUIR, JIMMIE C. PETERS, MARC T. AMY, MICHAEL G. SULLIVAN, GLENN B. GREMILLION, ELIZABETH A. PICKETT, BILLY H. EZELL, J. DAVID PAINTER, and JAMES T. GENOVESE, Judges.


AMY, Judge.

The defendants filed applications for supervisory writs with this court after the trial court denied their exceptions of no right of action and various other exceptions. This court granted the writs, noting both that La.R.S. 22:655 does not provide for direct action in state court against the insurer of a party claiming sovereign immunity and that the Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe is an indispensable party to the state court matter as previously held in ...

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