Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-10-10 15:07:28.630188+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:50:02.082845
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STATE OF LOUISIANA

               COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT

CODY     HAMILTON      AND    DEVIN                                             NO.        2023      CW   0814
LEWIS     HAMILTON

VERSUS

SAFEGUARD       CAPITAL       FUND,
L.P.,     SAFEGUARD         SELF
STORAGE,       INC.,       SAFEGUARD
DEVELOPMENT          GROUP,    LLC,
SAFEGUARD       DEVELOPMENT            I,
LLC,     SAFEGUARD         EQUITY      GROUP,
LLC,     SAFEGUARD         STORAGE
PROPERTIES,          LLC,    AND
SAFEGUARD       OPERATIONS,            LLC,                                   OCTOBER 10,                 2023
ABC    INSURANCE       COMPANY,         AND
XYZ    INSURANCE       COMPANY

In Re:          Cody       Hamilton          and     Devin    Lewis      Hamilton,             applying       for
                supervisory              writs,        19th       Judicial            District            Court,
                Parish of East                Baton Rouge,        No.    681837.

BEFORE:         McCLENDON,          HESTER,        AND MILLER,          JJ.

        WRIT    GRANTED.               The    trial    court's          July    17,       2023       judgment,
which     granted       the    Motion          for    Partial       Summary         Judgment         filed       by
defendants,           the    State       of     Louisiana,         through          the    Department            of
Public       Safety     and    Corrections            and    the    Office          of    the    State       Fire
Marshal ( " the        State") ,         is     reversed.         This     court         has    interpreted
La.    R.S.     13:5106(B)          to       provide    one $ 500,000.00                 cap    on    personal
injury       damages (       including          survival         actions       for        those       personal
injury       damages)         and       one $      500,000.00        cap       for        wrongful          death
damages.         Dakmak       v.       Baton       Rouge     City    Police         Department,             2012-
1468 (    La.    App.       1st     Cir.       9/4/14),       153    So.3d      498,        508-09.           The
State     is    not    entitled          to    the    relief     sought        as    a    matter       of    law.
See    La.     Code    Civ.       P.     art.      966(A) ( 3).         Accordingly,             the      Motion
for    Partial       Summary Judgment              filed by the          State       is denied.

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COURT    OF APPEAL,          FIRST       CIRCUIT

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