Louisiana Majority: Court Erred In Denying Insurance Agent’s Exception Of Peremption

(May 5, 2023, 12:26 PM EDT) -- LAKE CHARLES, La. — A majority of a Louisiana appeals court panel held that a lower court erred in finding that an insured’s professional negligence claims against an insurance agent and his company are not perempted under state law, reversing but noting, along with a judge who filed a separate concurrence, that the agent’s conduct in obtaining business interruption/extra expense (BI/EE) coverage that was “significantly insufficient” to meet the insured’s needs is “reprehensible and not excused by the result of this litigation.”...