Legal Opinion

Hoy v. Gilbert

Louisiana Court of Appeal

Decided May 13, 1998No. 30255-WCAPublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

h MARVIN, Chief Judge.

This appeal was referred to a five-judge re-argument panel under LSA-Constn. Art. 5, § 8(B), when one judge of the three-judge panel dissented to a reversal of the WCO’s rejection of the claimant’s demands in a worker’s compensation action.

On re-argument, and accepting the WCO’s assigning no credibility to claimant, we find that the probably inebriated claimant was a passenger in the truck of his supervisor who had begun driving on a mission for the employer before the temporarily disabling accident occurred. In such circumstances, the accident arose out of the…

Also in this document: Dissent.

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Jagneaux v. Marquette Casualty CompanyLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1961

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Hoy v. GilbertSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1999
  2. Gomez v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1999

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