Sears v. Parkchester Apartments, Inc.

REDMANN, Judge.

In 1954, in Davis v. Lewis & Lewis, 226 La. 1059, 78 So.2d 173, 174, the Louisiana Supreme Court commented on a plaintiff’s inability to obtain the name of an adjuster-represented insurance company: “To give the name of the liability insurance carrier should become the prevailing ethics.”

In 1974, the adjuster in this suit still refused to disclose the names of its insurers “and in the industry in whole, it’s generally assumed if the insurance company, the plaintiff’s attorney does not know the insurance company involved, that we don’t generally give him that information, that’s…