LOOK OUT FOR MOTORCYCLES!!! According to performance measures developed by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) and The Governor’s Highway Safety Association, 80 motorcyclists were killed in Louisiana accidents in 2011, 59 of whom were helmeted. On June 15, 2013, another fatal motorcycle accident occurred on Louisiana Highway 1065…
Louisiana State Police investigated the ninth auto accident fatality of the year in Troop D yesterday in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. According to the LSP news release, a truck driven by an unbelted DeRidder man crossed the center line of Louisiana Highway 26. An oncoming SUV took evasive action, but was…
Louisiana Trial Lawyer, B. Scott Andrews, of the Baton Rouge, Louisiana personal injury law firm of Dué Guidry Piedrahita Andrews Courrege L.C., has been selected for membership in The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers. Scott Andrews is already a 2012-2013 member of The National Trial Lawyers Top 40…
Every member (Paul H. Dué, Kirk A. Guidry, Randy A. Piedrahita and B. Scott Andrews) of the Baton Rouge, Louisiana personal injury law firm of Dué Guidry Piedrahita Andrews Courrege L.C. has been named to the 2013 Super Lawyers list for Louisiana. The reason is clear – more than 25 years…
Baton Rouge, Louisiana personal injury trial lawyer, Paul H. Dué, has been selected by his peers to be included in The Best Lawyers in America, 19th edition for his work in the practice areas of Admiralty & Maritime Law, Personal Injury Litigation, and Product Liability Litigation. Listing in the 2013…
Dué, Guidry Piedrahita & Andrews has been named to the U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” 2013 list, with first tier rankings in Personal Injury Litigation-Plaintiffs and Product Liability-Plaintiff. The Baton Rouge, Louisiana personal injury law firm has been ranked in the first tier every year since the…
We lawyers are paid to talk, and talk we do. We talk too much. We never learn anything by talking, but we are driven to it. I saw this at a closing I attended with my wife. The closing attorney talked the whole time, interrupted my wife and everyone else…
In Marcus v. Hanover Ins. Co., Inc., 740 So.2d 603 (La.1999), the Louisiana Supreme Court held that a “business use exclusion” in a personal automobile liability policy which excludes coverage for damages resulting from the operation of “your insured car, in any business other than an auto business,” is against…
Congratulations to Baton Rouge, Louisiana trial lawyer, Scott Andrews, of the law firm of Dué Guidry Piedrahita Andrews Courrege L.C., for being recognized as one of America’s top young trial lawyers. Scott Andrews has been invited to join the invitation only professional organization, The National Trial Lawyers: Top 40 under…
As of August 1, 2012, the Louisiana Supreme Court is accepting electronic or e-filing of documents from Louisiana attorneys in good standing. Attorneys interested in this voluntary program must first participate in a 30-minute online training session provided on the Louisiana Supreme Court website in order to obtain a password…