Stutes v. Albertson's Inc.

| iPETERS, Judge.

Chet States filed this claim for workers’ compensation benefits, penalties, and attorney fees, alleging that he sustained an injury to his neck, right arm, hand, and back as a result of lifting boxes of meat in the course and scope of his employment with Albert-son’s, Inc., at its Lafayette, Louisiana store. At the hearing on the matter, the issues included the proper amount of States’ indemnity benefits and his entitlement to penalties and attorney fees. The workers’ compensation judge held in favor of Albertson’s, and States has appealed. In his appeal, he contends that the…