Brunson v. State

YELVERTON, Judge.

This is a worker’s compensation case governed by the law prior to the 1983 amendments. The defendant, the State of Louisiana, through the Department of Transportation and Development, complains of two rulings. First, DOTD argues that the trial court erred in failing to grant its exception of prematurity. Second, it appeals from the trial court’s judgment in favor of the plaintiff finding that the plaintiff is working in substantial pain entitling him to compensation benefits and that the defendant was arbitrary and capricious in failing to pay those benefits entitling…