RYAN v. ZURICH AMERICAN INS. CO.

No. 2007-C-2312.

988 So.2d 214 (2008)

Marcus RYAN v. ZURICH AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY, et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied August 29, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, Robert Emmett Kerrigan, Jr., Issac Harrington Ryan, New Orleans, The Law Office of Geraldine Fontenot-Roberts, Baton Rouge, Murphy Joseph Burke, III, for applicant.

The Law Offices of Raleigh Newman, Raleigh Newman, John Lee Hoffoss, Jr., Lake Charles, Donald Wayne McKnight, for respondent.


VICTORY, J.

We granted this writ application to determine whether the court of appeal correctly applied the appropriate standard of review in awarding the plaintiff $1,188,298.00 for loss of future earning capacity as a result of an automobile accident. After reviewing the record and the applicable law, we find that the court of appeal substituted its own judgment for the judgment of the trial court in violation of the manifest error rule; therefore, we reverse the...

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