McDONALD, J.
In this appeal, the plaintiff in a personal injury suit challenges the trial court's judgment, granting summary judgment in favor of a property insurer, and dismissing the insurer as a defendant in plaintiff's suit. For the following reasons, we affirm.
On April 9, 2008, Billy and Constance Garrett and their 44-year-old daughter, Lucretia Garrett, were temporarily staying at a house owned by Mrs. Garrett in Maurepas, Louisiana. (R68, 121, 128) The house was located in a curve of Louisiana Highway 22, a rural: two-lane roadway, and sat approximately 60 feet from the road. (R4, 170) Near dusk (R135), as Mr. Garrett and Lucretia sat on the front patio of the house, Bridget A. Leco was driving on Highway 22, when she failed to negotiate the curve in front of the house, left the highway, and struck Lucretia and the house. (R4) Lucretia sustained serious injuries, including fl.-a.ctures of her left leg, knee, and ankle, as well as a compression fracture of her spine. (R82) She underwent multiple surgeries, and, approximately two years after the accident, Lucretia continued to suffer chronic pain and had been unable to return to her job as an electrician. (R84, 98-99)
On March 31, 2009, Lucretia filed this suit for damages against Ms. Leco; Direct General Insurance Company of Louisiana (Direct General), Ms. Leco's automobile insurer; State Farm Fire and Casualty Company (State Farm), Mrs. Garrett's rental property insurer; and the State of Louisiana, through the Department of Transportation and Development (State).' (R3) Lucretia did not name her mother, Mrs. Garrett, as a defendant in the suit; however, State Farm's alleged liability was based on Mrs. Garrett's (its insureds) failure to notify Although we do not consider assertions made in brick in rendering a decision of appeal. according to Lucretia's appellate brief, she settled her claims against Ms. Leco and Direct General, and these parties were dismissed from the suit. (Appellant brief at p3.) Lucretia, as an invitee, that the house had a "defective condition," because it sat in the curve on Highway 22 where Mrs. Garrett knew prior accidents had occurred. (R6).
In due course, State Farm filed a motion for summary judgment seeking dismissal of Lucretia's claims against it. (R52) The trial court held a hearing on State Farm's motion at which it considered evidence regarding Mrs. Garrett's knowledge of prior accidents on Highway 22 near her house. (R328) The trial court ultimately determined that, under the facts presented, Mrs. Garrett had no duty to warn Lucretia of a dangerous condition created by the house's proximity to a dangerous curve of Highway 22. (R349, 350, 353-354) On October 10, 2012, the trial court signed a judgment granting State Farm's motion for summary judgment and dismissing State Farm as a defendant from the suit. (R318) Lucretia appeals from the adverse judgment, essentially contending there are disputed factual issues regarding the scope of Mrs. Garrett's duty, specifically relevant to whether the accident was foreseeable.
Appellate courts review a judgment granting or denying a motion for summary judgment de novo. A motion for summary judgment will be granted if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to material fact and that the mover is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. La. C.C.P. art. 966(B). The summary judgment procedure is favored and is designed to secure the just, speedy, and inexpensive determination of actions. La. C.C.P. art. 966(A)( ). Thus, we ask the same questions the trial court does in determining whether summary judgment is appropriate: whether there is any genuine issue of material fact, and whether the mover is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.
Generally, the owner of immovable property has a duty to keep such property in a reasonably safe condition.
After a de novo review of the evidence, we find the trial court correctly granted summary judgment in favor of State Farm in this case. Although a homeowner has a duty to discover and either correct or warn a guest of any unreasonably dangerous conditions on his premises, this duty does not make the owner an insurer of his guests against all possibility of accident.
For the above reasons, we affirm the trial court's judgment granting State Farm's summary judgment and dismissing State Farm as a defendant in Lucretia Garrett's suit. Costs of this appeal are assessed to Lucretia Garrett.
PETTIGREW, J., CONCURS, AND ASSIGNS REASONS.
I agree with the majority. I further point out that there is no evidence of a dangerous condition on Mrs. Garrett's property as required under the strict liability theory or negligence theory.