Federal Judge: State’s Prescriptive Period Bars Insurance Coverage Claims

Mealey's (June 5, 2024, 3:03 PM EDT) -- BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal judge in Louisiana on June 4 granted a manufacturer’s motion for summary judgment in a construction insurance dispute stemming from damages caused by a sprinkler leak, dismissing claims against the manufacturer with prejudice because the claims brought against the manufacturer by an insurer are prescribed by Louisiana’s one-year liberative prescriptive period in product liability cases....

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