Legal Opinion
Silk v. Silk
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided September 24, 1997No. 29864-CAPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
I! MARVIN, Chief Judge.
This appeal is a sequel to Silk v. Silk, 29,107 (La.App.2d Cir. 4/2/97) (on rehearing), 691 So.2d 97, writ denied, 97-1185 (La.6/20/97), 695 So.2d 1361, a worker’s compensation death benefit action concerning to whom the La. R.S. 23:1231 death benefit should be awarded for the work-related death of Barney Silk on September 29, 1994. The benefit was claimed by the decedent’s mother and by decedent’s widow and five-year-old child.
In that appeal, this court reversed the WCHO’s April 18, 1996 award of the $20,000 lump sum benefit to decedent’s mother and rendered judgment…
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