Reinhardt v. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS (NOPD)

PATRICIA RIVET MURRAY, Judge.

I r This is a workers’ compensation case. The employer, the New Orleans Police Department (“NOPD”), appeals two judgments of the workers’ compensation judge (“WCJ”) in favor of the claimant, Cathy Reinhardt. The judgments denied the NOPD’s exception of prescription as to Ms. Reinhardt’s indemnity benefits claim and awarded her temporary total disability benefits (“TTD”). For the reasons that follow, we affirm the WCJ’s findings that the indemnity benefits claim is not prescribed and that Ms. Reinhardt sustained a work-related disability. However, due to the lack…