Sanchez v. Hawkins

1MAX N. TOBIAS, JR., Judge.

Bryant Hawkins and State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company appeal a judgment of the trial court in favor of Charles Sanchez awarding him $35,000.00, plus judicial interest and costs.1 For the following reasons, we reverse.

This case arises from a rear-end automobile accident involving three vehicles. On 8 December 1999, the plaintiff, Charles Sanchez (“Sanchez”), was in his pickup truck on Chef Menteur Highway (“Chef Menteur”) in New Orleans when his truck was struck from the rear by another pickup truck driven by Bryant Hawkins (“Hawkins”), a defendant in…