Court Opinion

ID: 9656380
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 19:47:26.472367+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:13:32.105552
License: Public Domain

COOKS, J.,
dissenting.
hi dissent from the majority’s decision to reverse the trial court’s judgment granting summary judgment and remand for further proceedings. I find summary judgment was appropriate in this matter, albeit for different reasons than the trial court’s factual assumption. Summary judgment is appropriate because the policy required a mechanism of notice that was not possible. Deep South Surplus, Inc. was the exclusive managing general agent in Louisiana for Praetorian. Michael Du-gan, the president of Deep South, testified unequivocally that they did not accept notice for Praetorian. The real issue in this case is was notice possible if the policy is read as Defendant insists? I believe the answer is no, because Deep South clearly said they would not accept notice on behalf of Praetorian. Thus, whether Regions received a faxed notice from Tyler Timber may be a disputed fact, but this fact is neither material nor genuine because notice was not possible, as contemplated by the policy and as Defendant, the author of *1036the policy, interprets it. Therefore, I would affirm the grant of summary judgment.