Bailey v. Zurich American Insurance Co.

CIACCIO, Judge.

Defendants, Zurich American Insurance Company and Chalmette General Hospital, Inc., seek the termination of or a modification of the trial court’s award of worker’s compensation benefits to plaintiff, Melvina Bailey. Finding no change in plaintiff’s disability status, we uphold the trial judge’s award of benefits.

This case arose when plaintiff slipped and fell while in the course and scope of her employment as a dietary aide at Chal-mette General Hospital. Her initial injury was diagnosed as a strain of the hamstring muscles in the left knee and hi$. Six different physicians…