Insurer Voluntarily Dismisses Negligence Per Se Allegations vs. AT&T

U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty for Western Louisiana in Monroe granted the Jan. 24 motion of plaintiff Travelers Casualty Co. to voluntarily dismiss its allegations of negligence per se against AT&T and its contractor Deviney Construction. Louisiana law doesn’t recognize an independent cause of action of negligence per se under Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(i), said Doughty’s signed order Tuesday (docket 1:24-cv-00022). The insurer seeks to recover nearly $530,000 for its client, Loboda Properties, for damage that AT&T and its contractor, Deviney Construction, allegedly caused to an underground electrical conduit near a commercial retail building that Loboda owns in Natchitoches, Louisiana (see 2401080004).