Cotton v. First Fleet
Louisiana Court of Appeal
1Opinion of the Court
THIBODEAUX, Chief Judge.
| plaintiff-appellant, Cherry D. Cotten, asserts that the Office of Workers’ Compensation (OWC) erred by failing to include the value of certain fringe benefits in the calculation of Cotten’s average weekly wage (AWW) to determine Cotten’s indemnity benefits. The OWC agreed with the defendant First Fleet’s position that this court’s previous remand for recalculation of the AWW was limited to establishing the number of days Cotten worked during the twenty-six weeks preceding her injury. We reverse because we vacated the OWC’s judgment with respect to AWW and remanded…
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