Chapman v. JD's Trucking Co.

| .CARTER, C.J.

In this workers’ compensation case, defendant/appellant, JD’s Trucking Company, Inc., appeals a judgment rendered by the Office of Workers’ Compensation Administration (the OWC), awarding benefits to its employee despite a finding that the employee had violated LSA-R.S. 23:1208.

FACTUAL BACKGROUND AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Plaintiff/appellee, Clarence Chapman, filed a disputed claim for compensation with the OWC, alleging that he suffered injuries in an eighteen wheeler collision. At trial, Chapman testified that on October 15, 1998, he was in the process of hauling a load from…