Manuel v. La. Sheriff's Risk Mgmt. Fund

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that part of the reason substantive laws are not applied retroactively “is to prevent the impairment of contracts, which is, of course, prohibited by the Constitutions of the United States and of Louisiana”
• determining that an insurer was liable for statutory penalties because the bad faith claim first arose after the statute’s effective date, even though the policy was perfected and the accident occurred prior to the statute’s effective date

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).