Evangelia Bilalis v. Wallace Drennan And Zurich American Insurance Company

Supreme Court of Louisiana
July 3,
2025
Chief Deputy Clerk of Court
For the Court
The Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana
EVANGELIA BILALIS
VS.
WALLACE DRENNAN AND ZURICH
AMERICAN
INSURANCE COMPANY
No. 2025-C-00453
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IN RE: Wa
llace Drennan - Applicant Defendant; Zurich American Insurance
Company - Applicant Defendant; Applying For Writ Of Certiorari, Parish of Orleans
Civil, Civil District Court Number(s) 2020-10904, Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit,
Number(s) 2024-CA-0527;
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July 03, 2025
Writ application granted - see briefing notice and Order.
Hughes, J.
, recused.
JMG
JLW
WJC
JBM
PDG
CRC
07/03/2025 "See News Release 033 for any Concurrences and/or Dissents."

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STATE OF LOUISIANA
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CHIEF JUSTICE
JOHN L. WEIMER
JUSTICES
WILLIAM J. CRAIN
JOHN MICHAEL GUIDRY
CADE R. COLE
JAY B. MCCALLUM
JEFFERSON HUGHES
PIPER D. GRIFFIN
Sixth District
First District
Second District
Third District
Fourth District
Fifth District
Seventh District
VERONICA O. KOCLANES
CLERK OF COURT
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NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130-8102
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July 03, 2025
2025-C-004 5 3 EVANGELIA BILALIS VS. WALLACE DRENNAN. ET
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NOTE: FOR BRIEFING PURPOSES WRIT GRANTED July 03,2025
MEMORANDUM TO COLINSEL IN CAPTIONED CASE:
Please be advised that the above-captioned matter will be set for oral argument on this
Court's next available docket. A copy of the official docket with the specific date and time
of oral argument will be mailed out.
Please note Section 8 of Rule VII of the Rules of this Court provides that the applicant
or relator, as the case may be, must file their briefs on or before JruJ.y 28.2025: and the
respondent on or before August 18,2025.
Oral argument will be waived if brief is untimely filed. Briefs submitted on legal sized paper
should be fastened at the top. All briefs should be backed with the customary "Blueback" or
other flexible material. In criminal proceedings, the court directs that counsel must file a
brief. Failure to do so may subject counsel to a penalty of contempt of Court.
It is further provided in Rule VII, Section 9 that briefs sent through the mail shall be deemed
timely filed if mailed on or before the due date. If the brief is received by mail on the first
legal day following the expiration of the delay, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that it
was timely filed. In all cases where the presumption does not apply, the timeliness of the
mailing shall be shown only by an official United States postrnark or by official receipt or
certificate from the United States Postal Service, or bona fide commercial mail services such
as Federal Express or United Parcel Service, made at the time of mailing which indicates the
date thereof. Any other date stamp, such as a private commercial mail meter stamp, or label
from an Automated Postal Center, shall not be used to establish timeliness.
Briefs forwarded by private delivery or courier seruice shall be deemed timely filed only if
received by the clerk on or before the last day ofthe delay for filing.
Regards
an Chan
RC: RC
ccs: A11 Counsel
Hon. Lori Jupiter
Deputy Clerk

Hon. Chelsey Richard Napolean
Hon. Justin I. Woods, Clerk
Civil District Court: 2020-10904 - Div:I-05
Court of Appeal, Fourth Circurt: 2024-CA-0 527

SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA
No. 2025-C-00 453
EVANGELIA BILALIS
VERSUS
WALLACE DRENNAN AND ZURICH
AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY
On Writ of Certiorari and/or Review
Civil District Couft, Parish of Orleans Civil, No.2020-10904;
Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit, No. 2024-CA-0527.
And, whereas, the Court has this date, pursuant to Article 5, Sectiofl 5, of the
Constitution of Louisiana, made and issued the following order, to wit- "It is
ordered that the writ of review issue; that the District Court and the Court of
Appeal send up the record in Duplicate of the case; and that counsel for all parties
be notified."
Now, therefore, the said District Court and the Court of Appeal is hereby
commanded, in the name of the State of Louisiana and of this Honorable Court, to
send up forthwith to this Court, in accordance with Supreme Court Rule 1, at the
City of New Orleans, the record in duplicate of the above-entitled case.
Witness the Honorable Justices of the
Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana, on
this 3'u duy of July, in the year of our Lord,
Two Thousand Twenty-Five.
Veronica O. Koclanes
Clerk of Court
eputy Clerk of Court