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Claims for burns from hot soup in Louisiana
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01 · Your filing deadline
What is the deadline in Louisiana?
Louisiana's liberative prescription (statute of limitations) for personal injury and product liability claims is 2 years for injuries after July 1, 2024 and 1 year for earlier injuries (La. Civ. Code art. 3493.1). Louisiana law generally does not pause the prescriptive period for minors unless a statute says otherwise (La. Civ. Code art. 3468). Whether that time has passed depends on your facts, so don't rule yourself out. A lawyer can confirm yours.
2 years for injuries after July 1, 2024; 1 year for earlier injuries (La. Civ. Code art. 3493.1); prescription generally runs against minors (La. Civ. Code art. 3468). Whether that time has passed depends on your facts, so don't rule yourself out. A lawyer can tell you.
A lawyer can tell you. Louisiana does not have a product liability statute of repose.
Deadlines vary; a lawyer can confirm yours. An older diagnosis or a past filing window does not, by itself, establish whether you have a claim.
02 · Where cases are heard
Where would my case be heard?
Louisiana operates under the Civil Law tradition rather than Common Law. Louisiana uses modified comparative fault (no recovery at 51% or more fault) for injuries on or after January 1, 2026, and pure comparative fault for earlier injuries (La. Civ. Code art. 2323). Louisiana's product liability is governed exclusively by the Louisiana Products Liability Act (LPLA), La. R.S. 9:2800.51 et seq., which is the exclusive remedy for product liability claims and provides theories for unreasonably dangerous construction, design, failure to warn, and breach of express warranty. The LPLA's 'unreasonably dangerous' standard governs all instant soup burn claims in Louisiana.
Medical facilities in Louisiana
LSU Health New Orleans — Burn Center
How this works nationally
For the overall process and updates, read the Claims for burns from hot soup overview. This page covers the local information available for Louisiana.
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