Kimberly Silas (Of Counsel-New Orleans) and Zachary Fickes (Associate-New Orleans) secured dismissal in the Nineteenth Judicial District Court, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, on behalf of an insurance company. The case turned on Louisiana’s recently amended Direct Action statute; the bill prohibits a plaintiff from asserting a direct claim against a defendant’s insurer absent certain circumstances. The amended law took effect on August 1, 2024, but it failed to specify whether it applied retroactively. The plaintiffs named our client in a lawsuit filed on July 25, 2024, six days before the amended statute went into effect, providing the plaintiffs an arguable basis to assert that the insurer was properly named. Despite Kimberly and Zack’s arguments for retroactive application, the plaintiffs refused numerous requests to dismiss the insurer. However, upon their filing of an exception of no cause of action based on the amended statute, the plaintiffs promptly agreed to the dismissal, executing a partial motion to dismiss Wilson Elser’s client without prejudice.