Legal Opinion
Brown v. Mount Carmel Academy of New Orleans, Inc.
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided April 9, 1985No. CA-2783PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GULOTTA, Judge.
In this worker’s compensation case, the defendant employer and its insurer appeal from a judgment awarding plaintiff total and permanent disability benefits pursuant to LSA-R.S. 23:1221(2) for a knee injury. In answer to the appeal, plaintiff seeks penalties and attorney’s fees for defendants’ arbitrary and capricious denial of his claim. We affirm.
Huery Brown, a 48 year old maintenance foreman at defendant Mount Carmel Academy for 23 years, twisted his knee in the course and scope of his employment on November 24, 1981. His injury required the surgical removal of the lateral…
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