Lewis v. Iberia Parish School Board

|!YELVERTON, Judge.

This worker’s compensation case presents the issue of whether an incomplete claim form mailed to the Office of Worker’s Compensation (the Office) is sufficient to interrupt prescription. The hearing officer granted the exception of prescription filed by the Iberia Parish School Board and Alexsis Risk Management ^Service. The former employee-claimant, Larry Lewis, appealed this judgment. We reverse.

While employed with the School Board, Lewis was pulling some chairs and hurt his back and right leg on January 14, 1991. He was paid temporary total disability benefits starting…