Talbert v. G.A.T. Airline Ground Support, Inc.

_JjThe majority affirms the workers’ compensation judge’s refusal to accelerate benefits pursuant to LSA-R.S. 23:1333 under a judgment awarding claimant TTDs as long as benefits were compensable, where the employer established that the claimant was no longer temporarily, totally disabled. While I find the better course would be to require that a payor defendant/employer file a request for modification once a judgment has been rendered or entered, under the applicable jurisprudence, the result reached by the majority is correct.

In Dixon v. King, 178 La. 1,150 So. 385, 386 (1933), the Louisiana…