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Date Created: 2023-07-27 17:07:19.505296+00
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             COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT
 PUI    KWAN      YUEN                                                                              NO.     2023      CW    0565

 VERSUS

 STATE NATIONAL                  INSURANCE
 COMPANY,         INC.,          RIFFAL,
 L. L. C.     AND GEOFFREY SCOTT
                                                                                                         July 27,          2023
 HALL

 In    Re:          Pui      Kwan       Yuen,           applying           for        supervisory               writs,          19th
                    Judicial            District          Court,           Parish           of       East       Baton      Rouge,
                    No.      650- 561.

 BEFORE:           MCCLENDON,             HESTER,         AND MILLER,                 JJ.

             WRIT       GRANTED.              The       trial       court'       s                  18,
                                                                                      May                   2023      judgment
 sustaining  the                   objection              raised            by        the           defendants,             Dugas
 Pest Control of                   Baton           Rouge,       Inc.,           Geoffrey Scott Hall,                             and
 Gemini       Insurance             Company,              and       requiring               the          presence          of    the
plaintiff,                Pui      Kwan        Yuen,          throughout                the          entirety           of       the
trial        in     this         matter,            is    reversed.               A    party              represented
counsel
                                                                                                                                  by
                  at    a
                             proceeding                 before           the     court              is    not     considered
absent        for         purposes             of       La.     Code        Civ.           P.        art.       1672 ( A) ( 1) .
Comment (          g)       to    La.     Code          Civ.        P.     art.       1672;              Dickens      v.        Com.
Union        Ins.       Co.,       1999- 0698 (               La.        App.        1st        Cir.       6/ 23/ 00),           762
So. 2d       1193,          1196.             Plaintiff             advised            the          trial       court           that
her      attorney                will         be    present
                                                                         during             the           trial       on        this
matter        and           she     will           be     available               for           direct          and        cross-
examination.
                Accordingly, the defendants' objection                                                                  to       the
plaintiff' s limited presence at trial is overruled.

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COURT OF APPEAL,                  FIRST CIRCUIT

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      DEPUTY CLERK OF COURT
             FOR THE COURT