Legal Opinion
Willis v. Alpha Care Home Health
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided January 31, 2001No. 00 896-WCAPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
| WOODARD, Judge.
In this workers’ compensation litigation, we have to determine whether the Workers’ Compensation Judge (WCJ) erred when he found that Ms. Betty Faye Willis did not meet her burden of proving that she was disabled and entitled to workers’ compensation medical and indemnity benefits. We find that the trial court committed legal and manifest error, and after conducting a de novo review of the record, we hold that Ms. Willis met her burden of proving, by a preponderance of the evidence, her disability and entitlement to medical benefits. Furthermore, our thorough review of the…
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