FOR IMMEDIATE NEWS RELEASE

NEWS RELEASE # 029

FROM: CLERK OF THE SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA

The Opinion handed down on the 18th day of April, 2008, is as follows:

BY WEIMER, J.:

2007-C- 1335 C/W 2007-C -1399 EUGENE BELLARD v. AMERICAN CENTRAL INS. CO., ET AL. (Parish of Calcasieu)
We remand this case to the district court to confect an appropriate monetary judgment consistent with the views expressed herein.
REVERSED IN PART; AMENDED IN PART AND AS AMENDED AFFIRMED; REMANDED.

CALOGERO, C.J., concurs and assigns reasons.
VICTORY, J., concurs in part, dissents in part and assigns reasons.
TRAYLOR, J., concurs in part, dissents in part and assigns reasons.
KNOLL, J., concurs in result in part and dissents in part with reasons.