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WATKINS v. EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION

No. 2012-C-0477.

117 So.3d 548 (2013)

Patricia WATKINS v. EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

May 29, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeremiah A. Sprague , Timothy J. Falcon , Falcon Law Firm, Marrero, LA, Frank M. Buck, Jr. , New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff/Relator.

Martin A. Stern , Raymond P. Ward , Valeria M. Sercovich , Glen M. Pilie , Adams and Reese LLP, Richard S. Pabst , Michael R. Phillips , Louis M. Grossman , Julie Parelman Silbert , Brittany L. Buckley , Kean Miller LLP, Molly Steele , Barbara Bossetta , Edward L. Fenasci , Curry & Friend, PLC, Ronald A. Johnson , Bettye A. Barrios , Gavin H. Guillot , Johnson Johnson Barrios & Yacoubian, Chadwick J. Mollere , S. Suzanne Mahoney , Nichole M. Gray , Johnson Gray McNamara, LLC, Roy J. Rodney, Jr. , Rodney & Etter, LLC, New Orleans, LA, Mary S. Johnson , Jill T. Losch , Johnson Gray McNamara, LLC, Mandeville, LA, Thomas M. McNamara , Johnson Gray McNamara, LLC, Lafayette, LA, for Defendants/Respondents.

(Court composed of Judge DENNIS R. BAGNERIS, SR., Judge MAX N. TOBIAS, JR., Judge PAUL A. BONIN).

PAUL A. BONIN, Judge.

We granted a writ of certiorari to consider Patricia Watkins' challenges to the correctness of the trial court's granting of the oil company defendants'1 peremptory exceptions of peremption and of no cause of action. The defendants argued and the trial court found that Ms. Watkins' survival action was extinguished because it was perempted and that she has no cause of action for exemplary damages in connection with...

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