LaFleur v. Travelers Insurance Co.

The simple question is whether the employee is disabled by residual pain, as the trial court held.

Prior to the accident, she could work without substantial pain. This was so, despite a spondylolisthesis (forward slip*255page of a vertebra of the spinal column) and a latent arthritic condition. The medical evidence does not substantially dispute that these latent conditions could be aggravated into total disability through a trauma. See, e. g., Hebert v. Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co., La.App. 1st Cir., 88 So.2d 243 (spondylolisthesis) and Ceasar v. Calcasieu Paper Co., Inc., La.App. 1st…