Lebleu v. Phoenix of Hartford Insurance

CULPEPPER, Judge.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. Plaintiff alleges that while employed by Antoine’s Restaurant in New Orleans, on July 18, 1968, he sustained bilateral inguinal herniae, which were surgically repaired *622but from which he never fully recovered. He alleges that while later employed by Fred Wyble Contractors he sustained two additional accidents, in June and July of 1969, which aggravated the pre-existing injury and caused a recurrence of the her-niae. This recurrence was repaired by a second bilateral hernioplasty on October 27, 1969. Nevertheless, after this second surgery…