Legal Opinion
Beach v. Continental Casualty Co.
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided June 3, 2009No. CA 09-108PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EZELL, Judge.
Lin this legal malpractice proceeding, Dave Beach appeals a trial courts’ ruling granting an exception of peremption and dismissing his claims against his former attorneys who represented him in a personal injury suit. Mr. Beach claims that his legal malpractice suit filed on May 14, 2007, was timely.
FACTS
The facts are not in dispute. Mr. Beach initially hired Gary Hays to represent him in a suit for damages he sustained to his tooth and gum when he bit into a foreign object while eating at a Burger King restaurant in Pineville. Subsequently, Mr. Hays associated Thomas Davenport…
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