Legal Opinion
Arceneaux v. Amstar Corp.
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided February 25, 2015No. 2014-CA-0271PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MADELEINE M. LANDRIEU, Judge.
11 This appeal concerns a purely legal issue: the scope of an insurer’s duty to defend in a long latency disease case where the insurer’s occurrence-based policies were in effect for only a portion of the time span during which the plaintiffs’ alleged exposure occurred.
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2Cases cited19 opinions
- Cole v. Celotex Corp.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1992
- Steptore v. Masco Const. Co., Inc.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1994
- Smitko v. Gulf South Shrimp, Inc.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 2012
- Yount v. MaisanoSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1993
- Arceneaux v. Amstar Corp.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 2011
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Daniel Arceneaux, Louis Daverede, Jr., Vives Lemmon and Jules Menesses v. Amstar Corp., Amstar Sugar Corp., Tate and Lyle North American Sugars, Inc., and Domino Sugar CompanySupreme Court of Louisiana · 2016
- Daniel Arceneaux, Louis Daverede, Jr., Vives Lemmon and Jules Menesses v. Amstar Corp., Amstar Sugar Corp., Tate and Lyle North American Sugars, Inc., and Domino Sugar CompanySupreme Court of Louisiana · 2016