Price v. Universal Labor Services

I ¡¿EDWARDS, Judge.

Plaintiff/appellant Anderson Price appeals the judgment of the trial court awarding him $2,500.00 in attorney fees pursuant to LSA-R.S. 23:1201.2. Price was injured while working for defendant/appel-lee Universal Labor Services (“Universal”). He alleges that the trial court’s award of attorney fees was abusively low and requests that the judgment be reversed and amended to reflect the time expended by his attorney, Rosalind Jones Larkins (“Larkins”). For the following reasons, we reverse the judgment of the trial court and amend the award of attorney fees to $6,000.00.

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