Louisiana Panel: Court Erred In Dismissing Flood Dispute For Lack Of Jurisdiction

(April 15, 2019, 12:04 PM EDT) -- BATON ROUGE, La. — A Louisiana appeals panel on April 12 held that a lower court erred in sustaining an insurance broker’s declinatory exception raising the objection of lack of subject matter jurisdiction and dismissing an insured’s petition for damages arising from flood damage, reversing the lower court (Gerard Duplantis v. Kevin Odom, et al., No. 2018 CA 1251, La. App., 1st Cir., 2019 La. App. Unpub. LEXIS 112)....

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