Legros v. Westlake Polymers Corp.

| iYELVERTON, Judge.

This writ application presents the question of the constitutionality of La.R.S. 23:1101(D) dealing with employee and employer suits against third persons in a workers’ compensation setting. We deny the writ application finding, as the trial court did, that the statute is constitutional.

Austin Industries, Inc. and its workers’ compensation insurer, St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company, filed a petition of intervention in a tort suit that had been filed by Charles Legros and his wife for injuries he sustained when he was ^employed by Austin and fell from a roof at…