Our Baton Rouge, Louisiana injury attorneys accept serious personal injury, wrongful death, admiralty, maritime and offshore injury referral clients from attorneys around the world. Historically, approximately one-half of all clients represented by our law firm are referral clients from other lawyers throughout the United States who associate us to act as primary counsel or as trial counsel in representing their clients.

Our Louisiana accident lawyers have also been retained by other law firms (on a contingency fee basis) to handle appeals of their cases. Our experienced Louisiana appellate attorneys have handled hundreds of appeals before the Louisiana Courts of Appeal and before the Louisiana Supreme Court. Some of the most well-known personal injury related reported decisions in Louisiana involved cases handled by our injury and accident law firm, including Youn v. Maritime Overseas Corp. (review of general damage awards; McDill v. Utica (UM tender); Detillier v. Sullivan (defective ICC under ride guard); Aucoin v. State, DOTD (applying current standards to defective highways); Archon v. United Pacific Railroad and Rick v. State, DOTD (duty to upgrade railroad grade crossings); Cox v. Moore (survival action damages); Sharkey v. Sterling Drug (Reye's Syndrome from aspirin); Martin v. Champion Insurance (UM insurer owes interest on excess judgment); Steptoe v. Lallie Kemp (apportionment of fault); Fox v. Board of Supervisors (in personam jurisdiction); Schwamb v. Delta Airlines (overhead luggage storage); and Eubanks v. Brasseal (negligence per se for violation of a safety statute).

Our experienced federal court attorneys have also successfully handled numerous motions to remand cases improvidently removed from state court to federal court, including Belser v. St. Paul Fire & Marine (non-retroactivity of the Judicial Improvements and Access to Judgments Act to a defective medical equipment case); Ard v. Transcontinental Gas Pipeline (Punitive damages for victims of a natural gas pipeline explosion are not to be aggregated to satisfy the amount in controversy); Harrison v. Rouse (effect of bankruptcy on state court action in multiple death and burn injury plant explosion case); Besnard v. Lifecare (inapplicability of the Class Action Fairness Act to a single Hurricane Katrina wrongful death case); Dowdall v. Cooper Tire (alleged improper joinder of a tire installer in a tire tread separation case); Peters v. Pumpkin Air (diversity lacking in a helicopter crash wrongful death case); Carpenter v. Illinois Central Railroad (domicile of insurers in an automobile - train collision for diversity of citizenship); and Coody v. Exxon (general maritime claim brought under savings to suitors clause does not create federal jurisdiction).

In order for attorneys who are not in the same firm to divide a fee in a Louisiana case, the Louisiana Rules of Professional Conduct for lawyers require that each attorney renders meaningful legal services for the client in the matter, and that the client agrees in writing to the representation by all of the attorneys involved and to the share of the fee that each attorney will receive. With this in mind, Due', Price, Guidry, Piedrahita & Andrews strives to enter into competitive referral arrangements with other injury attorneys. If you are interested in associating us on a state court or federal court case at the trial level or on appeal, contact one of our Louisiana accident lawyers.