Snapper Brown v. Brennan Landry Moore

STATE OF LOUISIANA

COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT

SNAPPER BROWN, ET AL NO. 2020 CW 1285

VERSUS

BRENNAN LANDRY MOORE MARCH 10, 2021

In Re: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company and

Brennan Landry Moore, applying for supervisory writs,
19th Judicial District Court, Parish of East Baton

Rouge, No. 670237.

BEFORE: GUIDRY, McCLENDON, THERIOT, LANIER, AND WOLFE, JJ.

WRIT GRANTED. The portions of the trial court' s November

20, 2020 judgment which allow plaintiffs to bring a third person
with him/ her into the examination room and allow the audio

recording of the additional medical examinations of plaintiffs

are reversed. Plaintiffs presented no special circumstances

supporting the imposition of such conditions. Plaintiffs are

not allowed to bring a third person into the examination room

for his/ her examinations, and the examinations of plaintiffs

with Dr. Ferachi are to be conducted without audio recording.

PMc
MRT

WIL

Guidry and Wolfe, JJ., dissent and would deny the writ.

The criteria set forth in Herlitz Construction Co., Inc. v.

Hotel Investors of New Iberia, Inc., 396 So. 2d 878 ( La. 1981)
per curiam) are not met.

COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT

DEPUTY CLERK OF COURT
FOR THE COURT