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BELL v. AMERICAN INTERN. GROUP

No. 06-1242.

950 So.2d 164 (2007)

Jessie BELL v. AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

February 7, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Hallack, Baton Rouge, LA, for Plaintiff/Appellant, Jessie Bell.

S. Brian Perry, Randall K. Theunissen, Allen & Gooch, Lafayette, LA, for Defendant/Appellee: IP Petroleum Co., Inc.

Edwin G. Preis, Jr., Richard J. Hymel, Preis, Kraft & Roy, Lafayette, LA, for Defendants/Appellees, National Union Fire Company of LA Operators and Consulting Serv., Inc.

Elton Duncan, III, Duncan, Courington & Rydberg, New Orleans, LA, for Defendant/Appellee, Mark & Emmett Marine, Inc.

Ross David Bruce, Agent for Service, LaRose, LA, for Defendant/Appellee, Gulf Tran, Inc.

Court composed of OSWALD A. DECUIR, GLENN B. GREMILLION, and BILLY HOWARD EZELL, Judges.

GREMILLION, Judge.

The plaintiff, Jessie Bell, appeals the judgment of the trial court sustaining his peremptory exception of prescription. The trial court held that his claims against the defendant, Mark & Emmett Marine, Inc., were prescribed as he failed to assert them within three years of the date of the incident, pursuant to general maritime law. We affirm.

FACTS

On May 6, 2000, Bell, an employee of Wireline Specialists of Louisiana, Inc...

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