The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana — in Ragusa v. Louisiana Insurance Guarantee Association (October 8) — weighed in whether the state’s LIGA statutes violated the Louisiana Supreme Court rule that a newly created statute of limitations must provide a “reasonable time for those affected” to assert their “vested rights.”
More specifically, the court addressed what is a “vested right” in a wrongful death action.
The plaintiffs’ decedent was diagnosed with mesothelioma from asbestos exposure in June 2021. Shortly after, in …
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