Demma v. Automobile Club Inter-Insurance Exchange

WEIMER, Justice.1

liWe granted certiorari in this case to determine whether an uninsured/underin-*97surecl motorist carrier’s unconditional payment of monies to its insured for damages sustained in an automobile accident with an unclerinsured motorist pursuant to LSA-R.S. 22:6582 and McDill v. Utica Mutual Insurance Company, 475 So.2d 1085 (La.1985), constitutes an acknowledgment sufficient to interrupt prescription. Answering that inquiry in the affirmative, we find that the lower courts erred in sustaining the uninsured/underinsured motorist carrier’s exception of prescription. Accordingly, we…