No. 94-C-1497. August 30, 1994. APPEAL FROM CIVIL DISTRICT COURT, PARISH OF ORLEANS, STATE OF LOUISIANA, HONORABLE LOUIS A. DIROSA, J. John S. Keller, New Orleans, for respondent James Louis Jasmin. G. Bruce Parkerson, George B. Hall, Jr., William D. Aaron, Jr., Patricia A. Lynch, and Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, for relator Golding and Companies. Before SCHOTT, C.J., and WARD and LANDRIEU, JJ. LANDRIEU, Judge. The relator, Golding and Companies, is the excess insurer of HNV Central Riverfront Corporation