State Farm Fire & Casualty Insurance Co. v. Young

GUIDRY, Judge.

Plaintiffs, State Farm Fire and Casualty Insurance Company (State Farm) and Lee-Dee Cigar and Candy Company (Lee-Dee), appeal from the Office of Worker’s Compensation (OWC) hearing officer’s dismissal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction of their petition to modify a worker’s compensation judgment. The judgment sought to be modified was rendered by the district court on January 22, 1986. The hearing officer determined that jurisdiction was proper in the district court in which a separate petition for modification was also filed and a judgment refusing modification was…