Ardoin v. Hartford Acc. & Indem. Co.

How courts have described this case

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• overruling Percle v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co., 349 So.2d 1289, 1303 (La. Ct. App. 1977), which had held abandonment of locality rule to be prospective only
• Procedural and interpretive laws are not applied retroactively when such application would operate unconstitutionally to disturb vested rights or impair contracts
• “[I]nterpretive legislation does not create new rules, but merely establishes the meaning that the interpreted statute had from the time of its enactment. It is the original statute, not the interpretive one, that establishes rights and duties.”

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