In re New Orleans Train Car Leakage Fire Litigation 794 So. 2d 955

In re NEW ORLEANS TRAIN CAR LEAKAGE FIRE LITIGATION.

No. 2000-CA-0479.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Aug. 1, 2001.

Henry T. Dart, David P. Bains, Joseph M. Bruno, Harry E. Cantrell, Frank J. D’Amico, Calvin C. Fayard, Wendell H. Gauthier, Jack W. Harang, Darleen M. Jacobs, C. Joseph Murray, David W. Robinson, H. Edward Sherman, Thomas L. Smith, Vernon P. Thomas, T. Allen Usry, Plaintiffs’ Legal Committee.

Wendell H. Gauthier, Bruce C. Dean, Gauthier, Downing, LaBarre, Beiser & Dean, and T. Allen Usry, Usry & Weeks, Metairie, LA, and Joseph M. Bruno, David Scalia, Anthony Irpino, Bruno & Bruno, New Orleans, LA, and Henry T. Dart, Metairie, LA, Plaintiffs’ Liaison Counsel.

Darleen M. Jacobs, New Orleans, LA, and Luther F. Cole, Baton Rouge, LA, Counsel for Plaintiffs/Appellees.

Harry S. Hardin, III, Raymond J. Salas-si, Jr., Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, L.L.P., and Sam A. Leblanc, III, Adams and Reese, LLP, and Roy J. Rodney, Jr., Rodney, Bordenave, Boykin & Ehret, New Orleans, LA, Counsel for Defendani/Appellant (CSX Transportation, Inc.).

Daniel Lund, Timothy F. Daniels, David W. O’Quinn, Montgomery, Barnett, Brown, Read, Hammond & Mintz, LLP, New Orleans, LA, and Joseph L. Shea, Jr., Barlow and Hardtner, L.C., Shreveport, LA, *956Counsel for Defendant/Appellant (AMF-BRD, Inc.).

Eric Shuman, Dwayne C. Jefferson, McGlinchey Stafford, A.P.L.C., and K. Erie Gisleson, Douglas L. Grundmeyer, Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Toler & Sarpy, L.L.P., New Orleans, LA, Counsel for Defendant/Appellant (Nova Chemicals, Inc.).

John S. Keller and Richard C. Stanley, Tilomas M. Flanagan, Bryan C. Reuter, Stanley & Flanagan, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, Amicus Curiae (The City of New Orleans).

Taylor L. Caffery, American Lung Association of Louisiana, Inc., Baton Rouge, LA, Amicus Curiae (The American Lung Association of Louisiana, Inc.).

Court composed of Chief Judge WILLIAM H. BYRNES III,- and Judges JOAN BERNARD ARMSTRONG and JAMES F. McKAY, III.