Legal Opinion
Desormeaux v. American Mutual Liability Insurance Co.
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided June 12, 1969No. 2709PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRUGÉ, Judge.
This is an appeal by the plaintiff, Curtis Desormeaux, from a judgment awarding him total and permanent compensation benefits, but conditioning payment on his submission to treatment and possible surgery in an attempt to alleviate his disability.
Plaintiff suffered injury to his left hand, the condition of which, at time of trial, was that he had a well-healed fracture involving the third metacarpal shaft of the left hand and he had a “stenosing tenosyn-ovitis” to the flexor tend on of the long finger. In more understandable terms, the “tenosynovitis” is an inflammation of the…
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