Legal Opinion

Burns v. Apache Corp.

Louisiana Court of Appeal

Decided May 11, 2005No. 39,639-WCAPublished

1Opinion of the Court

I , PEATROSS, J.

Terry Burns (“Ms. Burns”) filed a wrongful death suit on December 4, 2000, on behalf of her husband, who died in a work-related accident in June 2000. Apache Corporation, her husband’s employer, and United States Fire Insurance Company (collectively, “Apache”) its workers compensation carrier, intervened in the case, seeking reimbursement for workers’ compensation payments made. The case was tried on October 8, 2002 in the U.S. District Court, Western District of Louisiana, and Ms. Burns was awarded $47,868.12 in damages.

After judgment was rendered, Ms. Burns filed a Notice of…

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