Budd v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.

JiDECUIR, Judge.

C.J. Budd filed suit seeking damages for injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Budd was a passenger in a vehicle driven by Patricia Hanks. As the Hank’s vehicle sat at the intersection of Tucker Drive and Ambassador Caffery Parkway in Lafayette, Louisiana, a vehicle driven by defendant, David Bourgeois, struck a vehicle driven by Courtney Ramsey causing it to go airborne and land on the hood of the Hank’s vehicle. Budd was thrown upward by the impact and struck the roof of the vehicle causing injury to his head and neck.

The defendant, and his insurer State Farm Mutual…