Case Name: Cathy REINHARDT, individually and on behalf of her minor son, Joseph Untz, II v. Terry L. BARGER and Barbara Barger, individually and on behalf of the Minors, Brandon Barger, Brent Barger and Jacob Barger and ABC Insurance Company
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2009-04-29
Citations: 15 So. 3d 122
Docket Number: No. 2007 CA 2363
Parties: Cathy REINHARDT, individually and on behalf of her minor son, Joseph Untz, II v. Terry L. BARGER and Barbara Barger, individually and on behalf of the Minors, Brandon Barger, Brent Barger and Jacob Barger and ABC Insurance Company.
Judges: Before CARTER, C.J., WHIPPLE, PARRO, KUHN, GUIDRY, PETTIGREW, DOWNING, GAIDRY, McDonald, McClendon, hughes, and WELCH, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 15
Pages: 122–133

Head Matter:
Cathy REINHARDT, individually and on behalf of her minor son, Joseph Untz, II v. Terry L. BARGER and Barbara Barger, individually and on behalf of the Minors, Brandon Barger, Brent Barger and Jacob Barger and ABC Insurance Company.
No. 2007 CA 2363.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.
April 29, 2009.
Rehearing Denied June 30, 2009.
John W. Redman, Margaret E. Madere, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants, Cathy Reinhardt, et al.
Peter L. Donovan, Metairie, LA, for Defendants-Appellees, Terry L. Barger, et al.
Jude H. Trahant, Jr., Madisonville, LA, for Defendant-Appellee, Allstate Insurance Company.
Before CARTER, C.J., WHIPPLE, PARRO, KUHN, GUIDRY, PETTIGREW, DOWNING, GAIDRY, McDonald, McClendon, hughes, and WELCH, JJ.
Pettigrew and Hughes, JJ., dissent and would grant a rehearing.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
|TIn the courts of appeal of the State of Louisiana, "[a] majority of the judges sitting in a case must concur to render judgment." La. Const. Art. Y, § 8(B). Because the en banc panel of this court is evenly split, no majority has concurred to reverse or modify the trial court's judgment; thus, the judgment of the trial court must stand, and the effect of the court of appeal's vote is to affirm the trial court's judgment as rendered. Parfait v. Transocean Offshore, Inc., 2007-1915 (La.3/14/08), 980 So.2d 634, 638-639.
TRIAL COURT JUDGMENT STANDS.
KUHN, GUIDRY, GAIDRY and HUGHES, JJ., concur and assign reasons.
PARRO, J., concurs and assigns reasons, joined by McCLENDON, J.
PETTIGREW, J., concurs and assigns reasons, joined by DOWNING and WHIPPLE, JJ.
WELCH, J., concurs with the reasons assigned by PETTIGREW and HUGHES, JJ.
McDONALD, j., concurs for reasons assigned by KUHN, GAIDRY, and PARRO, JJ.