Lamartiniere v. Boise Cascade Corp.

|, Writ granted in part, otherwise denied.

We granted this writ in part in this workers’ compensation case to address the procedural issue concerning whether the Court of Appeal can modify a judgment in favor of a non-appealing party when the appellate court reverses the trial court’s judgment, which was granted fully in favor of the non-appealing party, and the non-appealing party did not file an answer to the appeal. For the following reasons, we find the Court of Appeal erred as a matter of law in requiring the claimant to file an answer to the appeal for a modification of the judgment…