Alessi v. Loehn

11With all due respect, I dissent, as I believe plaintiff, Matthew Alessi, has established a triable issue of fact as to whether defendant Safeway Insurance Company of Louisiana committed an actionable breach of his privacy.

As this Court recognized in Parish National Bank v. Lane, 397 So.2d 1282, 1286 (1981), there are four types of actionable tort claims based on breach of a privacy interest: (1) public disclosure of embarrassing private facts; (2) publicity which places the individual in a false light in the public eye; (3) appropriation of an individual’s name and likeness for another’s…