Legal Opinion
Vital v. Stine, Inc.
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided February 8, 2012No. 11-1088PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
KEATY, Judge.
|TIn this workers’ compensation case, the employer appeals from a judgment denying its motion to modify the weekly compensation due its former employee. For the following reasons, we affirm.
FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
John Vital injured his back and left leg on September 14, 1998, in the course and scope of his employment with Stine, Inc., when he slipped and fell while carrying a box of roofing shingles. Dr. Clark Gun-derson, a board certified orthopedic surgeon, performed a laminectomy from L3 to L5 with a decompression and lumbar fusion on Vital in July of 2003. Vital filed a…
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