Contractor Not Entitled To Louisiana’s Contractor Immunity Defense, Judge Rules

Mealey's (June 28, 2019, 4:07 PM EDT) -- BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal judge in Louisiana on June 4 granted a property owner’s motion for partial summary judgment on her argument that a general contractor cannot invoke the state’s contractor immunity defense because the plaintiff submitted sufficient evidence showing that the contractor made specifications about parts of a building that were defective (Janet Jeanes v. Greg McBride, et al., No. 16-1259, W.D. La., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS)....