Fils v. Starr Indem. & Liab. Co.

COOKS, Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant, Harold Fils, filed this Motion for Rehearing, asking this *1163court to reconsider our prior ruling affirming the trial court's judgment that bad faith claims against insurers are subject to a one-year prescriptive period.1 We granted Plaintiff's Motion for Rehearing. After further review, we now hold the appropriate prescriptive period for bad faith claims arising out of a contract of insurance is the ten-year prescriptive period found in La.Civ.Code art. 3499.

Plaintiff claimed injuries and personal damages as a result of an August 28, 2013 accident and filed…