Mealey's (June 27, 2019, 1:30 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge in Louisiana on June 25 denied a professional liability insurer and a claims investigator's motion to dismiss an insured’s third-party beneficiary claim pursuant to Louisiana Civil Code Article 1978, finding that the insured has pleaded facts demonstrating that it is a third-party beneficiary to the contract between the insurer and the claims investigator (Hammerman & Gainer, LLC v. Lexington Insurance Co., No. 18-6729, E.D. La., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 105913)....