State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Mondal

PHILIP C. CIACCIO, Judge Pro Tem.

Defendant-Relators, Debasis Mondal and Southern United Fire Insurance Company (“SUFIC”), seek this court’s supervisory jurisdiction to review the trial court’s denial of their exception of prematurity.

On April 7, 1997, Mondal was driving a vehicle insured by SUFIC that collided with a vehicle driven by Doris Reese and insured by State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company (“State Farm”). State Farm paid Reese’s property damage claim and filed suit against Mondal and SUFIC pursuant to its subrogation rights. Reese also joined the suit seeking the amount she…