Legal Opinion
Sowell v. Process Equipment
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided February 7, 2007No. 2006-1198PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SULLIVAN, Judge.
| ¶Process Equipment appeals a workers’ compensation judgment in favor of its former employee, Carla Sowell. For the following reasons, we affirm as amended.
Discussion of the Record
Mrs. Sowell filed a disputed claim for compensation alleging that she was injured on August 21, 2004, while setting up a monorail on a job for Process Equipment in Florence, South Carolina. At trial, she described being knocked to the floor on her right side when her co-employee, Wayne Johnson, “wiggled” a piece of equipment that she was holding after the monorail became jammed. Mrs. Sowell’s…
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