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FOR IMMEDIATE NEWS RELEASE NEWS RELEASE # 10 FROM: CLERK OF SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA The Opinion handed down on the 1st day of February, 2008, is as follows:

BY KNOLL, J.: 2007-C- 1384 MICHAEL A. TEAGUE, M.D. v. ST. PAUL FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, ST. PAUL INSURANCE COMPANY, SEALE, SMITH, ZUBER AND BARNETTE, DONALD ZUBER, CATHERINE NOBILE, CATHERINE LAUFFER, AND ABC INSURANCE AGENCY (Parish of E. Baton Rouge) For the foregoing reasons, the judgment of the court of appeal is reversed and this matter is remanded to the court of appeal for consideration of defendants' assignments of error on appeal. REVERSED AND REMANDED. JOHNSON, J., dissents. VICTORY, J., dissents. TRAYLOR, J., dissents and assigns reasons. WEIMER, J., concurs with reasons.

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2/1/08 SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA NO. 07-C-1384 MICHAEL A. TEAGUE, M.D. VERSUS ST. PAUL FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, ST. PAUL INSURANCE COMPANY, SEALE, SMITH, ZUBER, AND BARNETTE, DONALD ZUBER, CATHERINE NOBILE, CATHERINE LAUFFER, AND ABC INSURANCE AGENCY ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEAL FIRST CIRCUIT, PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE

KNOLL, Justice This legal malpractice action presents the question of whether knowledge of an undesirable result is sufficient to trigger the running of peremption under La. Rev. Stat.

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