United States Fifth Circuit

In a suit over insurance coverage for damages to a house during Hurricane Katrina, judgment for plaintiff-insured is affirmed in part where there was no indication that the district court committed clear error in determining that the plaintiffs were entitled to full coverage for the loss of their house, but reversed in part where the district court erred in failing to impose statutory penalties on the entire amount due.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/09/2009
• Published 02/10/2009

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before KING, DeMOSS and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard Charles Trahant (argued), Metairie, LA, Jack Edward Morris, Metairie, LA, John Henry Denenea, Jr., Brian G. Shearman, Shearman-Denenea, New Orleans, LA, for Grilletta and Lauman., Louis C. LaCour, Jr., Raymond Peter Ward (argued), Adams & Reese, New Orleans, LA, Robert I. Siegel, John Baay, William Andrus Barousse, Gieger, Laborde & Laperouse, New Orleans, LA, for Lexington Ins. Co.