(July 16, 2018, 12:09 PM EDT) -- BATON ROUGE, La. — A Louisiana federal judge on July 12 granted summary judgment in favor of an auto insurer after determining that a third-party claimant who obtained an assignment of rights from an insured is not entitled to recover damages in excess of the policy limits because the issue of damages was already adjudicated in an underlying state court suit filed by the third-party claimant (Bradley Smith v. Shelter Mutual Insurance Co., No. 15-357, M.D. La., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 115873)....