Scott v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

| MOAN BERNARD ARMSTRONG, Judge.

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

We grant the defendants/relators’ application for supervisory writs to consider the correctness of a trial court’s judgment allowing Van Robichaux to file a petition for intervention for breach of contract in the present action.

The original action is a suit for damages sustained as a result of the plaintiffs’ exposure to asbestos. The suit was assigned to an ad hoc section of the 34th Judicial District Court for St. Bernard Parish which was set up to handle all asbestos cases. Intervenor, Van Robichaux, filed a petition for intervention for…