Briley v. North River Insurance

On Rehearing

LOTTINGER, Judge.

A rehearing was granted herein limited, however, to the question of credit for medical payments on behalf of defendants. The record reflects that a stipulation was entered into the effect of which was that it was admitted that defendant North River Insurance Company paid, on its own behalf and on behalf of its ’ insured, medical expenses amounting to the sum of $3,287.79 for the treatment of plaintiff.

The rule has been announced by the Supreme Court in the case of Gunter v. Lord, 242 La. 943, 140 So.2d 11, that an injured automobile passenger who has been paid…