Smith v. Transport Services Co. of Illinois

MAX N. TOBIAS, JR., Judge.

|!Transport Services Co. of Illinois and its insurer, Protective Insurance Company (collectively, “Transport”), have filed the instant writ application seeking supervisory review of the trial court’s denial of their peremptory exception of prescription. Finding merit in Transport’s arguments, we grant the writ application, reverse the judgment of the trial court, and dismiss this case with prejudice.

This lawsuit arises from an alleged chemical spill that occurred on 7 August 2002 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The first lawsuit was filed on 7 August 2003 by Shirley…