New Orleans Paint & Drywall Services, Inc. v. Lodrigues & Associates, LLC

JUDE G. GRAVOIS, Judge.

li>This appeal concerns a suit by plaintiff New Orleans Paint & Drywall Services, Inc. (“New Orleans Paint”) against its insurance agent, defendant Lodrigues & Associates, LLC (“Lodrigues”) for allegedly failing to timely secure workers’ compensation coverage. New Orleans Paint appeals the trial court’s grant of Lodrigues’s Exception of Peremption, dismissing its suit as perempted under LSA-R.S. 9:5606. For the following reasons, we affirm.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

New Orleans Paint filed this suit against Lodrigues on October 17, 2006, alleging that on October 18,…