Fielder v. Triple S. Masonry

PRICE, Judge.

This is an appeal from the trial court judgment awarding the plaintiff-appellant worker’s compensation benefits for 35 percent permanent loss of use of his left ankle due to an employment-related accident. Defendant employer has answered the appeal seeking reversal of that portion of the judgment casting it for court costs and expert witness fees. On reargument before a five-judge panel as required by Art. 5, § 8(B) Louisiana Constitution,1 we amend the judgment appealed and affirm.

Plaintiff sustained injury to his left ankle in September 1978, while employed by defendant as a…