Hawkins v. Orleans Parish School Board

REGAN, Judge.

Plaintiff, Bettye W. Hawkins, filed this suit against her former employer, the Orleans Parish School Board, and its workmen’s compensation insurer, The Travelers Insurance Company, endeavoring to recover maximum compensation benefits for a disabling injury to her left knee which she asserts was incurred during the course and scope of her employment as a teacher’s aide at Lafayette School in the City of New Orleans.

The defendants answered and averred that the injury was not compensable since it did not result from an on-the-job accident within the intent and scope of the Louisiana…