Legal Opinion
Middlebrooks v. City of Bastrop
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided January 11, 2017No. 51,073-WCAPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, CHIEF JUDGE.
| iMark Middlebrooks was a fireman with the City of Bastrop Fire Department for 19 years and seven months. On May 10, 2014, when he was returning home from work, he blacked out. Middlebrooks began having seizures two or three times a day and was subsequently diagnosed with a brain tumor, Grade III astrocytoma. He sought workers’ compensation benefits for a service-connected occupational disease as set forth under La. R.S. 33:2011, the Cancer Act. The Workers’ Compensation Judge (“WCJ”) denied the claim and Mid-dlebrooks’s wife1 has appealed. For the following reasons, we…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Vincent v. City of New OrleansLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1976
- Rothell v. City of ShreveportLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1993
- Devall v. Baton Rouge Fire DepartmentLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2007
- McCoy v. City of Shreveport Fire Dept.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1995
- Coats v. City of Bossier CityLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1998
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3Cited by6 opinions
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