Johnson v. Motiva Enterprises LLC

ROBERT M. MURPHY, Judge.

|,.jin this matter, plaintiffs Vincent E. Johnson1 and his three minor children2 seek reversal of the trial court’s judgment that found Motiva Enterprises, L.L.C. (“Motiva”) to be plaintiffs statutory employer, thus limiting his remedy against Motiva and its named employees to workers’ compensation rather than in tort. Plaintiffs further appealed the trial court’s upholding the constitutionality of La. R.S *48623:1061(A)(3), the statutory employer immunity provision as amended in 1997 and the denial of plaintiffs’ request for declaratory judgment. For the reasons that…