Blow v. OneBeacon America Insurance Co.

PAUL A. BONIN, Judge.

h OneBeacon America Insurance Company is sued under the Direct Action Statute in its multiple capacities as the liability insurer of Avondale Industries, Inc. and eleven of its executive officers. OneBea-con concedes that Orleans Parish is proper venue against it for the plaintiffs’ survival action claims against it in its capacities as insurer of Avondale Industries and of five of the executive officers. But OneBeacon in its capacities as insurer of the remaining six executive officers raised' the objection of improper venue.

The trial judge sustained OneBeacon’s…