Case ID: so2d_362/html/1150-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Sara B. WILLIAMS, Individually and as natural tutrix of her minor children, Sara Suzanne Williams and Jason Lynn Williams, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AETNA CASUALTY AND SURETY COMPANY et al., Defendants-Third-Party Plaintiffs and Defendants Appellants-Appellees.
    No. 13599.
    Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.
    Aug. 28, 1978.
    Thompson, Sparks, Cudd & Dean by Wood T. Sparks, Monroe, for plaintiff-appellant Sara B. Williams, individually and as natural tutrix for her minor children, Sara Suzanne Williams and Jason Lynn Williams.
    Theus, Grisham, Davis & Leigh by R. L. Davis, Jr., Monroe, for defendant-third party plaintiff-appellant Aetna Casualty and Surety Co.
    Davenport, Files, Kelly & Marsh by Thomas W. Davenport, Jr., Monroe, for defendants-third-party defendants-appellees John Carr Burgess and Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.
    Gist, Methvin & Trimble by Howard B. Gist, Jr., Alexandria, for defendant-third-party defendant-appellee General Motors Corp.
    Before PRICE, HALL and JONES, JJ.
   HALL, Judge.

In this wrongful death action arising out of an on-the-job accident which happened prior to the effective date of Act 147 of 1976, amending LSA — R.S. 23:1032 and 1101, the district court held the act to be retroactive, sustained a peremptory exception of no right of action and no cause of action, and dismissed the plaintiff’s and third-party-plaintiffs’ demands against an executive officer of the decedent’s employer and the executive officer’s liability insurer.

Act 147 of 1976 cannot be applied retroactively so as to bar a cause of action against an executive officer of an employer arising out of an accident which occurred prior to the effective date of the act. Bostick v. International Minerals & Chemical Corporation, 360 So.2d 898 (La.App. 2d Cir. 1978); Guillory v. McClinton, 359 So.2d 223 (La.App. 1st Cir. 1978); Wilkinson v. Viccinelli, 359 So.2d 634 (La.App. 1st Cir. 1978); Billedeaux v. Adams, 355 So.2d 1345 (La.App. 3d Cir. 1978); Green v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, 352 So.2d 366 (La.App. 4th Cir. 1977), writ refused 354 So.2d 210 (La.1978).

The judgment of the district court is reversed; the peremptory exception of no right of action and no cause of action is overruled; the action is remanded to the district court for further proceedings; and the costs of appeal are assessed to appellees, John Carr Burgess and Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company.

Reversed and remanded.