Jacques v. Calcasieu Parish School Board

hWOODARD, Judge.

The Calcasieu Parish School Board, defendant in a worker’s compensation case, appeals a judgment awarding permanent partial disability benefits. For the following reasons, we affirm.

FACTS

Laurence “Lucy” Jacques was employed by the Calcasieu Parish School Board as a foreign language teacher at Westlake High School. On October 12, 1992, while walking down a row of desks, she caught her foot on a student’s book bag, spun around and slammed the right side of her head and body against the back wall of the classroom and “saw stars.” Two of her students helped her to her feet, after…