Allen v. Thomson Newspapers, Inc.

| GREMILLION, Judge.

The defendant, Richard J. Schmidt, appeals the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of his homeowner insurer, State Farm Insurance Company, and dismissing the claims of the plaintiff, Janice Trahan Allen, against it with prejudice, but reserving all of her claims against Schmidt. For the following reasons, we affirm.

FACTS;-

This matter stems from the highly publicized case in which Schmidt, a Lafayette gastroenterologist, was convicted of attempting to murder his lover,- Allen, by injecting her with the HIV virus. In this instance, Allen filed suit against-…