Case Name: Charles Leo GUILBEAU v. Dulan W. FONTENOT & Victor Fontenot; Consolidated with: PACIFIC MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY v. Victor FONTENOT & Commercial Union Insurance Company. (Two Cases)
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1987-03-26
Citations: 506 So. 2d 566
Docket Number: No. 87-273
Parties: Charles Leo GUILBEAU v. Dulan W. FONTENOT & Victor Fontenot. Consolidated with: PACIFIC MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY v. Victor FONTENOT & Commercial Union Insurance Company. (Two Cases).
Judges: Before GUIDRY, STOKER and DOUCET, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 506
Pages: 566–566

Head Matter:
Charles Leo GUILBEAU v. Dulan W. FONTENOT & Victor Fontenot. Consolidated with: PACIFIC MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY v. Victor FONTENOT & Commercial Union Insurance Company. (Two Cases).
No. 87-273.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.
March 26, 1987.
Rehearing Denied April 16, 1987.
Writs Granted June 8,1987.
Onebane & Assoc. (Graham N. Smith, Lafayette, for defendant-relator.
Joseph R. Joy, III, Philip C. Kobetz, Hal J. Broussard, Christopher R. Philipp, James P. Lambert, Lafayette, Dorothy Kyle, Baton Rouge, for respondent.
Before GUIDRY, STOKER and DOUCET, JJ.

Opinion:
WRIT GRANTED AND MADE PEREMPTORY:
The trial court erred in not granting Commercial Union Insurance Company's motion for summary judgment. The rejection executed by Mr. Do, the president of DOCO Industrial Insulators, Inc., of uninsured/underinsured motorists coverage, is a valid rejection, as it is in writing and clearly expresses the intent to reject uninsured/underinsured motorists coverage. The rejection need not be attached to the policy to be a valid rejection. LSA-R.S. 22:1406, Cooper v. Barnes, 408 So.2d 378 (La.App. 1 Cir.1981), Alexander v. Allstate Ins. Co., 493 So.2d 677 (La.App. 2 Cir.1986), Roger v. Estate of Moulton, 494 So.2d 1226 (La.App. 3 Cir.1986), writ granted, Tapia v. Ham, 480 So.2d 855 (La.App. 2 Cir.1985).
IT IS ORDERED that all claims against Commercial Union Insurance Company, as the uninsured/underinsured motorist insurer of DOCO Industrial Insulators, Inc. be dismissed with prejudice.