Schiro v. Maryland Casualty Co.

CHASEZ, Judge.

We granted Certiorari in this matter to determine whether employee Jerome Schiro could assert a workmen’s compensation claim by supplementing and amending a former petition for compromise, which had been refused by the trial court ten months before.

On May 12, 1965 Jerome Schiro and Maryland Casualty Co., his employer’s compensation insurer, filed a joint petition praying for approval of a compromise they entered into pursuant to LSA-R.S. 23:1271-23:1274. The trial judge refused to approve the compromise and rendered the following judgment:'

“Refused. Medical indicates far greater…