Legal Opinion · Concurrence
Kahl v. Baudoin
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided June 28, 1983No. 82-CA-1001Published
1Concurrence
WATKINS and SHORTESS, JJ.,
concurring.
This case presents the latest in a long series of cases and statutory amendments that have arrived at or dictated different results as to whether or not deputy sheriffs were afforded coverage by the Workmen’s Compensation Act.
The applicable provision of the Compensation Act applying to public employees is La.R.S. 23:1034.
Subsections B and C were added to the statute by Act No. 25 of 1981, effective November, 1981.
Under the statute as it stood before the 1981 amendment, it was first held that a deputy sheriff was not ah “employee” of the sheriff, but rather…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Gulf Oil Corporation v. State Mineral BoardSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1975
- Jenkins v. Jefferson Parish Sheriff's OfficeSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1981
- Foster v. HamptonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1977
- Johnson v. FournetLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1980
- Johnson v. Northern Assurance Co. of AmericaLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1967
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