Richard v. Landreneau Enterprises

The writer feels compelled to make some additional observations concerning the majority’s reversal of the award of compensation to the admittedly disabled workman, because of his concern that the majority opinion marks an erosion of the previously established principles of Louisiana jurisprudence that a workman engaged to perform hazardous duties within the meaning of the compensation act, is entitled to the protection of this humanitarian legislation without hair-splitting inquiry into the workman’s particular duties at the particular moment of an industrial accident which disables him.

The…