Vickers v. Continental Southern Lines, Inc.

DOMENGEAUX, Judge.

Plaintiff, Onie Mae Vickers, individually and on behalf of her three minor children, instituted this suit to recover workmen’s compensation benefits for the death of her husband, Bobby Gene Vickers. Made defendants were Continental Southern Lines, Inc. and Transport Insurance Company, Continental’s workmen’s compensation insurer.

Following trial, judgment was rendered in favor of plaintiff awarding compensation at 65% of decedent’s wages and funeral expenses of $1,500.00. The trial judge, finding defendant’s failure to pay the claim to have been arbitrary and capricious, also…