Desoto v. Beaty

SAUNDERS, Judge.

11 This is a case where a state employee was in a two-car automobile accident while in the course and scope of his employment. The state employee and his wife filed suit against the driver of the other vehicle in the automobile accident to recover for their damages. The State of Louisiana filed an intervention seeking reimbursement for the workers’ compensation benefits paid to its employee.

The state employee and his wife then filed suit against the State, through its Self-Insurance Fund, for uninsured/under-insured motorist (UM) coverage based on the State’s failure to…