Crawford v. Al Smith Plumbing & Heating Service, Inc.

The trial judge gave the following reasons for his judgment that plaintiff was not totally and permanently disabled:

“While he may be unable to perform the work which he was performing prior to the accident of December 2,1974, without some discomfort, the evidence does not indicate that plaintiff would be working in substantial pain.”

In Holmes v. Morville Plantation, Inc., 314 So.2d 752 (La.App. 4th Cir. 1975) we were confronted with a case where the medical testimony alone did not support a finding that plaintiff suffered pain from his injury which was substantial enough to be disabling but…