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FOR IMMEDIATE NEWS RELEASE
NEWS RELEASE #029
FROM: CLERK OF SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA
The Opinion handed down on the 18th day of April, 2008, is as follows:
BY WEIMER, J.:

2007-C- 1335 EUGENE BELLARD v. AMERICAN CENTRAL INS. CO., ET AL. (Parish ofC/W Calcasieu)2007-C -1399
We remand this case to the district court to confect an appropriatemonetary judgment consistent with the views expressed herein.REVERSED IN PART; AMENDED IN PART AND AS AMENDED AFFIRMED; REMANDED. CALOGERO, C.J., concurs and assigns reasons.

VICTORY, J., concurs in part, dissents in part and assigns reasons.

TRAYLOR, J., concurs in part, dissents in part and assigns reasons.

KNOLL, J., concurs in result in part and dissents in part with

reasons.


4/18/08



SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA
No. 07-C-1335 c/w 07-C-1399
EUGENE BELLARD
VERSUS
AMERICAN CENTRAL INS. CO., ET AL.

On Writ of Certiorari to the Court of Appeal, Third Circuit, Parish of Calcasieu
WEIMER, Justice
We granted certiorari in this case primarily to resolve a conflict in the courts of appeal with respect to whether an uninsured motorist carrier is entitled to a credit for medical and disability wage benefits paid on behalf of or to an injured worker by a workers

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