Styles Fashion Outlets, Inc. v. Dan Gabus

STATE OF LOUISIANA
COURT OF APPEAL, THIRD CIRCUIT

04-152
consolidated with
04-153 &04-154

STYLES FASHION OUTLETS, INC, ET AL.

VERSUS

DAN GABUS D/B/A MARTIAL ARTS ACADEMY AND/OR BAYOU
CRANE PRODUCTIONS AND ABC INSURANCE COMPANY

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APPEAL FROM THE
FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
PARISH OF LAFAYETTE, NUMBER 20024534
HONORABLE BYRON HEBERT, DISTRICT JUDGE

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BILLIE COLOMBARO WOODARD
JUDGE

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Court composed of Ulysses Gene Thibodeaux, Chief Judge, Billie Colombaro
Woodard, and Marc T. Amy, Judges.

REVERSED AND REMANDED.

Gregory J. McDonald Henry Provosty
Bienvenu, Foster, Ryan & Edgar D. Gankendorff
O’Bannon Christophe B. Szapary
1010 Common Street, Suite 2200 Provosty, Salder, deLaunay,
New Orleans, Louisiana 70112 Fiorenza & Sobel
(504) 310-1544 650 Poydras Street, Suite 2700
COUNSEL FOR New Orleans, Louisiana 70130
PLAINTIFF/APPELLANT: (504) 410-2795
Assurance Company of COUNSEL FOR
America DEFENDANTS/APPELLEES:
Northern Insurance Company Dan Gabus d/b/a Martial Arts
of New York Academy and Bayou Crane
Productions and Certain
Underwriters at Lloyd’s
London

Kraig Thomas Strenge Robert L. Ellender
Post office Drawer 52292 Voorhies & Labbe
Lafayette, Louisiana 70502-2292 Post Office Box 3527
(337) 261-9722 Lafayette, Louisiana 70502-3527
COUNSEL FOR (337) 232-9700
PLAINTIFF/APPELLEE: COUNSEL FOR
Styles Fashion Outlets, Inc. DEFENDANT/APPELLE:
Lafayette Insurance Co. Domengeaux & Foreman
d/b/a La Promenade Mall, et al.
William M. Blackston
Hoffman, Siegel, Seydel, et al.
2100 Poydras Center
New Orleans, Louisiana 70130
(504) 523-1385
COUNSEL FOR
PLAINTIFF/APPELLE:
Allstate Insurance Co.

WOODARD, Judge.

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For the reasons assigned this day in Northern Ins. Co. of New York v. Dan
Gabus, et al., 04-153 (La.App. 3 Cir. __/__/04), ___So.2d ___, we reverse the trial
court’s dismissal of Assurance Company of America on an exception of prescription.
We remand the matter for further proceedings and cast the costs of this appeal on
Defendant/Appellee, Gabus and its insurers.

REVERSED AND REMANDED.

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