Allstate Indemnity Co. v. Wooley

| ¡.This appeal by defendant J. Robert Wooley, Commissioner of Insurance for the State of Louisiana, acting on behalf of the Louisiana Department of Insurance (Department), arises out of a dispute with plaintiff Allstate Indemnity Company (Allstate). After the Department sought to impose a penalty on Allstate pursuant to La. R.S. 22:1072, Allstate brought suit in the Nineteenth Judicial District Court seeking declaratory judgment against the penalty.1 The trial court decided in Allstate’s favor and this suspensive appeal by the Department followed. Allstate answered the appeal. For the…