Davis v. State Ex Rel. Department of Transportation & Development, Office of Risk Management

hi dissent. While an appellate court must be deferential to the reasonable findings of a trier of fact, it is not compelled to slavishly adhere to those findings when the record, read as a whole, dictates otherwise. See Ambrose v. New Orleans Police Dep’t Ambulance Serv., 93-3099 (La.7/5/94), 639 So.2d 216. This is such a case. A careful reading of the entire record cries out for a reversal of this judgment.

Exclusion of Exhibits

The workers’ compensation judge (WCJ) erred in several procedural rulings that *978resulted in the exclusion of almost all of the parties’ evidence at trial.

At trial, Ms.…