Washington Parish Government v. Reed

|2In this workers’ compensation proceeding, a local district attorney appeals a judgment of the Office of Workers’ Compensation Administration finding the district attorney liable for payment of workers’ compensation benefits to the legal dependents of a deceased employee.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

On September 30, 2008, while traveling home from a Louisiana District Attorney Association seminar, Millard Gatewood, an assistant district attorney serving in the Twenty-Second Judicial District, was killed in a one-car accident. Following his death, workers’ compensation death benefits were paid…