Reed v. LCS Corrections Services, LLC

PAINTER, Judge.

|,The Workers’ Compensation Judge (WCJ) found that the decedent, Solomon Reed, did not fall within the manual labor exception to the independent contractor rule found in La.R.S. 23:1021(7). Thus, Plaintiff, Rebecca Reed, appeals the judgment of the WCJ granting the motion for summary judgment filed by Defendant, LCS Corrections Services, LLC (LCS), on this issue and denying her cross motion on the same issue. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Solomon Reed was an airplane pilot. LCS provides consulting services to privately run correctional…