Jackson v. Royal T Energy, LLC

_JjA workers’ compensation judge (WCJ) denied the employer’s declinatory exceptions of lack of subject matter jurisdiction and in personam jurisdiction, finding that extraterritorial jurisdiction in Louisiana *707was permissible because the claimant, while injured in Texas, was hired in Louisiana. This court granted the employer’s writ application to docket. We now grant the writ, make it peremptory, and reverse the WCJ’s denial of the exception of lack of subject matter jurisdiction;

FACTS

The claimant, Harold Jackson, is a Louisiana resident. He briefly worked as a truck driver for Royal T…