Panel Vacates $134,131 Default Judgment Against Insurer In Hurricane Laura Suit

(September 22, 2022, 1:15 PM EDT) -- LAKE CHARLES, La. — A Louisiana appeals panel on Sept. 21 held that a lower court erred in entering a $134,131.45 default judgment against an insurer in the insured’s breach of contract lawsuit arising from Hurricane Laura damage to a recreational fishing boat, finding that the estimate that the insured used to prove his claim for damages under the insurance policy “is inadmissible hearsay evidence.”...

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