Hall v. Louisiana Coca-Cola Bottling Co.

REDMANN, Chief Judge.

Appealing only the amount of a $17,600 jury award for “loss of wages or impairment of earning capacity,” defendant argues that there is no medical evidence to support an award other than for about three weeks of disability because of a nose operation three months after the accident. (Plaintiff did not miss any work immediately following the accident.)

Treating general surgeon Dr. Clanton concluded plaintiff “had sustained a lumbar spinal muscular sprain ... probably of a moderate type of severity” in the accident of October 27, 1980. Muscle spasm and positive straight leg…